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ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 71 No. 14

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

Supreme Court to decide last link in pipeline project

By GAEN MURPHREE ADDISON COUNTY / MONTPELIER — Over four years of controversy surrounding the construction of a 41-mile natural gas pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury and Vergennes culminated in 30 minutes before the Vermont Supreme Court on Tuesday.

At issue was the legal question of whether Vermont Gas Systems should have been allowed to bury pipeline under Geprags Park in Hinesburg — the last major piece of conduit to be laid. It could be days or months before the Supreme Court issues its decision.

But the pipe itself is in the ground and the pipeline itself is only about one week from completion, Vermont Gas spokesperson Beth Parent said after Tuesday’s hearing.

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our crews right now are prepping the pipe for the final stage, which we call ‘gas up,’” she said. “That means we’re about a week away from being able to offer an important energy choice to the families and businesses in Addison County.”

Bristol attorney James Dumont argued before the court Tuesday on behalf of seven Hinesburg residents who contend that laying the 1,987 feet of pipe through Geprags Park violates the terms under which benefactor Dora Geprags bequeathed the land to the town. Dumont appealed to the state Supreme Court after the Public Service Board last September granted Vermont Gas an easement across the park.

The PSB based that order on both the public good of conveying natural gas and on the fact the pipe would be laid using directional drilling and (See Pipeline, Page 11A)

Bill on soil practices draws fire at lunch

Focus also on water quality, farm labor

By GAEN MURPHREE BRIDPORT — Water quality, regenerative agriculture certification, farm labor, and the legislative budgeting process topped the bill at Monday’s Ag Lunch at the Bridport Grange.

Close to 50 attendees gathered for the annual lunch, which is part of the legislative breakfast series cosponsored by the Bridport Grange and the Addison County Farm Bureau.

Legislators in attendance included Democratic Reps. Peter Conlon of Cornwall and Diane Lanpher of

Vergennes, Shoreham Independent Terry Norris, and Republicans Harvey Smith of New Haven and Warren Van Wyck of Ferrisburgh.

Among the items engendering the most discussion was the so-called regeneration agriculture bill (S.43 and H.430). The bill would create a regenerative agriculture certification program as a means to “incentivize ecosystem restoration.”

The aim is to promote farming practices that increase carbon sequestration and “reduce the amount of sediment and waste (See Lawmakers, Page 3A)

STATE REP. HARVEY Smith addresses issues facing farmers during Monday’s Legislative Lunch held in the Bridport Grange.

HILLSBORO SUGARWORKS OWNER Dave Folino points to a taphole in a sugar maple that healed up in a previous season. As the climate changes, some sugarmakers worry that warmer weather will cause tap holes to plug up earlier in the season and decrease the flow of sap.

Maple experts also say more pests and extreme weather caused by climate change could hurt Vermont’s iconic sugaring industry.

Independent photo/Dylan Thomas

Climate may challenge sugarmakers

Maples at risk from warming

By EMMA COTTON ADDISON COUNTY — Earlier this week, in the hills of Starksboro and Huntington, wind whipped audibly through Hillsboro Sugarworks’ 15,000 sugar maples. Light rain tapped on the roof of the 1979 sugarhouse and dripped onto the ground. Sue Folino, co-owner of the operation with her husband, Dave, eyed the quivering trees warily.

“It’s days like this that can rip the forest apart,” she said.

Although it’s been a good sugaring season for them so far, days characterized by unpredictably strong winds or

higher temperatures than Vermont used to see this time of year cause the Folinos worry about climate change, and how it might affect sugarmaking in the years ahead.

“I’m worried about climate change already existing,” Dave said, sitting beside a hulking evaporator in the sugarhouse.

“We have huge downpours almost every summer that have the ability to cause erosion, or wash out roads, or do quite a bit of damage. The other thing that seems

to be happening a lot more since, maybe the year 2000, is high, high winds, and a tremendous amount of wind damage. I think they’re the first warning shots already hitting us that didn’t used to occur as often.”

The Folinos are not alone.

More than 50 percent of sugarmakers are concerned about climate change, according to a study by UVM Extension and SUNY’s College of Environmental

Science and Forestry. Out of 252 survey respondents, 44 percent have seen increased wind damage to trees, 39 percent are tapping earlier, and 21 percent have seen a decline in the health of their maples. Experts identify temperature changes, severe weather events and damage from pests as the chief threats to one of Vermont’s iconic industries.

The stakes are high. Vermont’s maple industry contributed over $300 million to the state’s economy in 2013, supporting between 2,735 and 3,169 full-time jobs, according to UVM’s Center for Rural Studies.

“It’s an iconic industry for Vermont, there’s no doubt about it,” said Mark Isselhardt, a maple specialist with UVM Extension.

“It’s a growing industry. U.S. (See Climate, Page 13A)

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Monkton berry farm turning over a new leaf Land conserved as couple begins work

By GAEN MURPHREE MONKTON — Forty-four years ago, a young couple bought 108 acres on Davis Road in Monkton and started dairy farming. Over the years the farm changed its focus to berries and became beloved throughout the community as Norris Berry Farm.

This spring a new young couple will begin farming those same acres.

Stephen and Sarah Park, 33 and 23, respectively, and just married last fall, began their lease of the Monkton landmark on March 15 — smack dab in the middle of a blizzard. While that flurry of snow set back their blueberry pruning schedule by a few weeks, the young farmers aren’t a bit fazed.

Both Stephen and Sarah love being outdoors and both love the hard physical labor farming requires.

Also, both love food.

“We always have a tableful of friends around our house,” said Stephen Park.

“And I have always loved the whole process, the full process of growing (See Berry farm, Page 14A)

SARAH AND STEPHEN Park prune blueberry bushes at the Norris Berry Farm in Monkton last week. The young couple took up a lease on the 108 acres last month and plan to purchase it in the coming year.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Porter now planning for new growth By the way on campus

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center officials are back to work planning for future growth on the PMC campus during the next five years. The four-month effort will culminate in a facilities master plan that will be anchored by a new medical office building.

It was back in the summer of 2015 that Porter signed a contract with the architectural firm Lavallee Brensinger to assist with facilities planning.

Porter Medical Center includes the hospital, Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehabilitation and 12 affiliated physicians’ practices.

Officials wanted a thoughtful analysis of PMC facilities, with recommendations on how they should be improved and expanded over several years.

Unfortunately, PMC leaders had to (See Porter, Page 11A)

Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon is seeking innovative work for solo and/or group art exhibits from artists working in a variety of media.

Both emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply.

Site-specific work/installations (See By the way, Page 14A)

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Hearing set on new Ferrisburgh charter

Town workers would be appointees

DOUG NEDDE, THE new owner of the Battell Block, is planning some major renovations to many of the residential and commercials units in the iconic downtown Middlebury building.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Battell Block to undergo major renovations New ownership to upgrade apartments

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The new owner of the Battell Block will soon begin major interior renovations to downtown Middlebury’s anchor property, work that will largely focus on the residential portion of the 68,000-squarefoot complex at the corner of Merchants Row and Main Street.

It was last October that owner Bruce Hiland announced the sale of the Battell Block to Nedde Real Estate, a Burlington company that owns several other Middlebury properties, including the Battell Hill Townhomes off Seminary Street and the Catamount Park complex off Exchange Street. Nedde Real Estate owner Doug Nedde said Vermont architect/developer Alain Youkel is his partner in the Battell Block venture.

Nedde took a close look at the property prior to the purchase and determined the third-floor apartments needed a major overhaul. He also mapped out some upgrades to the commercial and office units in the building, erected between 1892 and 1898 by the legendary Joseph Battell.

Renovations will include installation of air conditioning to all the commercial and residential spaces.

Some of the restrooms will be modernized, including disabled-access for bathrooms in the commercial units. Entrances, foyers, common areas, lighting, carpeting and the elevator system will also receive major overhauls, according to Nedde.

“It’s a total transformation of the building, from the moment you enter the front door … to the different commercial or residential apartments we are going to be renovating,” Nedde said.

Work is slated to start this June and last up to six months.

All of the current tenants have been informed about the looming renovations, according to Nedde.

Some have agreed to temporarily uproot during construction and then return; others will be moving on.

“We are not terminating any leases,” Nedde said. “There are leases that are expiring, and in some cases we won’t be renewing those leases.”

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — The first of two public hearings on Ferrisburgh’s proposed town charter, which would be the town’s first, will be held this coming Monday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m. in Ferrisburgh’s Route 7 town office building. A second hearing will be held in town hall exactly a week later, at 6:30 p.m. on April 17.

The Ferrisburgh selectboard has set a May 11 town-wide vote for residents to decide whether to adopt a document that would change the town clerk’s and treasurer’s positions from elected posts to positions filled by selectboard appointment.

Residents discussed the charter with selectboard members at town meeting, and Board Chairwoman Loretta Lawrence said afterward feedback was generally positive.

The two-page charter includes basic language giving the town the right to “continue to be a municipal corporation” with “all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of the State … together with all implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted,” including to “enact ordinances” consistent with the Vermont Constitution.

Most of the rest of the document — written by the town attorney after reviewing other town charters — deals with the selectboard’s right to appoint the town clerk and treasur-

er, set their hours and pay, and write their job descriptions. It also states candidates for the two positions do not have to live in Ferrisburgh.

The proposed charter is brief in describing duties for the clerk and treasurer.

The driver behind the selectboard’s decision to propose the charter was dissatisfaction with the performance of the town’s former treasurer and board members’ inability to enforce what they said were needed changes when the treasurer did not answer to them, but rather to voters.

About a dozen other Vermont towns — including Vergennes, Stowe, Springfield and Berlin, as well as a number of larger communities, mostly cities — also appoint clerks and/or treasurers. Locally, Panton changed its charter in 2014 to make the treasurer and clerk appointed positions, and Panton selectboard members have said the move has worked well.

If residents back the charter change on May 11 in Australian balloting, it would still need approval from the Legislature to take effect.

The board in February chose Sept.

5 as the date the board would gain the powers outlined in the charter to appoint Ferrisburgh’s town clerk and treasurer. But it appears unlikely the Legislature will still be in session to act on the charter, and the earliest it could take effect if voters support it would be early next year.

April is the Month of the Young Child

NEW BATTELL BLOCK owner Doug Nedde stands in the outdated kitchen in one of the building’s apartment units. Nedde plans to renovate many of the units and upgrade the kitchens.

He said the upcoming work will focus on three distinct areas of the multi-story building: • Approximately 10,000 square feet of space on two walk-out/basement levels of the building that face the Otter Creek.

Once fixed up, Nedde believes the space will be better suited to the artist workshops, office space and other personalized uses that portion of the building has historically been fulfilling.

“Some of the space is vacant now and we plan on improving it, cleaning it up and presenting it back to the market,” Nedde said. “You have a good view of the creek and natural light. It’s nice space and has been under-utilized in the past.”

• Second-floor commercial space that includes the Community College of Vermont’s Middlebury branch.

These improvements will mainly take place during the summer in order to minimize disruption to CCV classes.

“We’re working with CCV to design floor plan, with additional improvements for their space,” Nedde said.

He is negotiating with some potential new tenants eyeing office

space on the second-floor level.

• The third floor, where perhaps the most striking improvements will take place. Nedde said the current 21 apartments on the third-floor level will be turned into “18 new, modern, high-end” apartments, ranging in size from lofts to two-bedroom units.

All will be endowed with new kitchens, bathrooms, air conditioning and washer-dryers.

Nedde described the Battell Block’s current 21 apartments as being “fully functioning, but they have not been updated in 20 to 30 years.”

Monthly rents for the improved apartments will range from around $800 to $2,200, depending on size and amenities, according to Nedde.

“We want to provide a new apartment living experience on the third floor,” Nedde said, adding his research has indicated a demand for more upscale rental units in downtown Middlebury.

The retail dominated portion of the Battell Block — the first-floor, street-level area that includes such businesses as 51 Main, Carol’s Hungry Mind Café and Edgewater Gallery — will not be renovated at this

time, according to Nedde.

“All commercial first floor tenants have leases that will continue and are doing well,” Nedde said. “Our thinking is that the improvements we will be doing in other parts of the building will drive more business to the downtown and the Battell Block commercial and retail tenants.”

Nedde is closely following plans to replace the rail bridges on Main Street and Merchants Row. That process will begin this spring with the planned installation of temporary bridges at both locations.

“I don’t think it will be affecting our tenants that much,” he said of the temporary bridge installations. Nedde noted access to the Battell Block will continue during that work, though he said he’ll be concerned if a significant number of parking spaces are temporarily lost on Merchants Row and Main Street.

He said permanent replacement of the two spans will be “a very positive thing for downtown Middlebury,” and added it would be premature for him to comment on that larger project’s potential impacts on the Battell Block.

By FAITH GONG It’s the time of year when those of us living in Vermont wonder: Just what time of year IS it? Since March 20, my children have awoken each morning to observe with confusion: “It’s spring, but there’s still snow on the ground!” Is it winter? Spring? Mud season? Any and all, depending on the day.

But here is some welcome clarity: In Addison County, the entire month of April is the Month of the Young Child.

The Month of the Young Child is a local observance of an annual event sponsored nation-wide by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to celebrate early learning, young children, and their teachers and families. Towards this end, early childhood programs across the country hold activities that bring awareness to the needs of the youngest members of society.

The Addison County Month of the Young Child is a collaboration between Building Bright Futures (Vermont’s Early Childhood State Advisory Council), the Addison County Directors’ Network of early childhood professionals, and local libraries.

If you’re reading this, chances are that you have young children in your life right now and are fairly enlightened about their need for quality early childhood programs.

Even if you don’t have a young child in your home, chances are that you have — or have had — young children in your life. At the very least, you were a young child

at one point.

In other words: The Month of the Young Child is something that we can all get behind.

Here are some ways that you can be involved in the Month of the Young Child: 1. Observe. Artwork from local childcare centers, family home providers, and preschools (including Quarry Hill School, Otter Creek Childcare Center, College Street Children’s Center, Evergreen Preschool, Mary Johnson Children’s Center, Addison County Parent-Child Center, Bristol Family Center, Wren’s Nest, East Middlebury Cooperative Nursery School, Starksboro Cooperative Preschool, Lincoln Cooperative Preschool, Vermont Sun Children’s Center, Champlain Valley Head Start Mary Hogan, Addison Northwest Early Education Program, and Nadeau’s South) will be on public display throughout the month of April. Look for children’s artwork at Ilsley Library in Middlebury, Bixby Library in Vergennes, and Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol. Additional art, storyboards, and photographs will be displayed in the windows of local Main Street businesses.

2. Attend. As part of the “Healthy Children, Happy Families” Parenting Series, a workshop on “Getting Children to Eat Well” will be held at Vergennes Congregational Church (childcare available at Evergreen Preschool) on Wednesday, April 19, from 5:30-7 p.m. Mingle with fellow parents of young children, enjoy a short pre(See Children, Page 3A)

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Children

DEPUTY SECRETARY OF Agriculture Alyson Eastman speaks at the Legislative Ag Lunch held in the Bridport Grange Monday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

STATE REP. TERRY Norris, who was appointed to the position in February, introduces himself at Monday’s Legislative Ag Lunch in Bridport.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Lawmakers (Continued from Page 1A) entering” the state’s waterways.

The bill originated with the Soil4Climate Advisory Board and Shaftsbury farmer Jesse McDougall.

In the Senate it was co-sponsored by Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven. The House sponsor was Rep. Amy Sheldon, D-Middlebury, with co-sponsors including Conlon and Rep. Robin Scheu, D-Middlebury.

First introduced last year as S.159, this was touted as the first such bill to be presented nationwide.

Almost all who spoke at Monday’s lunch raised concerns about the proposed law. Objections centered around two issues: ways the bill would duplicate water quality improvement efforts already legislated and already under way at farms across the state; and ways the regenerative certification could weaken the organic market by created a parallel (and overlapping) designation.

Smith, a former dairy farmer whose farm now focuses on pasture-raised beef and other all natural meats, opened the lively lunchtime discussion by commenting on the bill and then invited Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition President Brian Kemp to speak on the group’s farmer-to-farmer education and outreach efforts to promote farming practices that improve water quality.

Kemp detailed the group’s growth from 12 members four years ago to now close to 90 now. He enumerated the coalition’s contributions to water quality including: • Getting farmers’ voices into the development of the state’s Required Agricultural Practices.

• Promoting such farm practices as planting cover crops, using no-till approaches to growing corn and other crops, injecting rather than spreading manure, and using vegetated buffers close to waterways.

“Those practices are instrumental

in helping clean up the lake. We’ve all adopted them. We’re all embracSTATE REP. PETER Conlon talks ing them,” said Kemp. “Convention- Bridport. al farms have taken a lot of scrutiny lately that their practices are the problem and we don’t believe that. There BUDGETING CLEANUP Lanpher, as a member of the Apare regenerative practices every day propriations Committee, talked at on these small and large farms. length about the state “These practices budgeting process. come at a cost,” Kemp Given the lunch’s ag continued.

“There’s “These practices focus, she described farms that already out come at a cost. varying strategies of their pocket have in- There’s farms proposed to fund the vested several hundred that already out state’s mandated Lake thousand dollars. of their pocket Champlain cleanup “This regenerative have invested over the long term. bill has been a conShe described how cern for most of us. several hundred And I’m just here to thousand dollars. the budgeting process say that there’s a lot — Brian Kemp works overall and gave a specific example of that is already going the Legislature’s budon, and we don’t need a bill and another accountability get discussions with UVM, which system in place at taxpayer expense had proposed cuts to the Extension to facilitate it because it is happen- program despite the Extension’s cruing and people are doing the right cial role in working with Vermont thing and we need to promote that farmers.

Asked about a possible crackdown more.”

about migrant farm worker issues at Monday’s Legislative Lunch in Independent photo/Trent Campbell

on the state’s undocumented dairy workers by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Conlon took the mic. Having worked in the dairy labor field in the past, Conlon discussed ongoing work in Washington

by Vermont’s congressional delegation and lawmakers from other dairy states to reform federal immigration policy. For now, he said, a hopeful outcome would be to reestablish the philosophy of “detente” whereby federal agents wouldn’t seek out foreign-born farm laborers with immigration issues as long as they didn’t otherwise break the law.

Smith added that immigration reform required federal legislators to work across the aisles and gave an example of how the state’s budget was worked out successfully thanks to a “tripartisan effort.”

“George W. Bush had an immigra-

tion bill that the Democrats didn’t like. President Obama had an immigration bill that the Republicans didn’t like. And yet there was a lot of similarities, there was a lot of the exact same language in both those pieces of legislation,” Smith said.

“So if we in Vermont can pull something together and get a good outcome, we should be holding Washington to the same standard.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is reached at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

(Continued from Page 2A) sentation on how food and nutrition impact child health and well-being, and create healthy and kid-friendly snacks! RSVP required: www. eventbrite.com/e/healthy-childrenhappy-families-getting-children-toeat-well-tickets-32665161377.

3. Advocate. Vermont’s Act 166 requires school districts to fund 10 hours a week of universal pre-K to 3- to 5-year-olds, regardless of parental income, in a prequalified pre-K program for 35 weeks of the school year. All children who will be age 3-5 on or before Sept. 1 are eligible; for the 2017-18 school year, the Act 166 funding is equal to $3,178 per child.

This is wonderful news for Vermont families, but more can be done to ensure that access to quality early childhood programs remains a priority for Vermont’s children. To learn more and to become an advocate for young children, check out the websites for Let’s Grow Kids (www. letsgrowkids.org/business) and the Vermont Early Childhood Alliance (vermontearlychildhoodalliance.org/ legislative-agenda/2017/2017-legislative-agenda).

4. Appreciate. As Su White of the Addison County Directors’ Network put it: “The Month of the Young Child is a time each year when each of us are reminded that our youngest learners play a significant role in the life and vibrancy of our communities.”

This month, what if we were especially mindful about the youngest children in our communities? This could take many forms: read to your little people, do a craft project with them, take them out for a special meal or activity, tuck some affirming notes into their lunch boxes, host some play dates so that you can get to know other little people.

And what if we didn’t stop there?

The Month of the Young Child also celebrates the librarians and childcare providers who dedicate their time and energy to our young children. Offer a few hours of volunteer time to a pre-K program or your local children’s librarian, take them some treats to keep their energy up, or write them a thank-you note letting them know how much you appreciate their efforts.

Our youngest children and the adults who serve them are often overlooked; they don’t have much (if any) economic or political power, which is how society tends to rate worth.

The Month of the Young Child is an attempt to turn that way of thinking on its head. So, for this month — and throughout the year — let’s be a community that notices and honors the worth of our young children.

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Letters

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ACSD’s 6th-grade query poses challenges, potential rewards The Addison Central School District recently posed an interesting question and challenge to its seven district towns: What did those schools and communities think about moving sixth grade students out of their respective elementary schools and into the Middlebury Union Middle School? The proposal would create a larger middle school of three grades — sixth, seventh and eighth — but would diminish the number of students attending each elementary school.

Justification for the idea is based on the district’s decision last October to pursue a three-year process to adopt the International Baccalaureate World School status for its schools, and whether merging the sixth grade with the middle school might advance the students’ and the program’s outcomes. As part of the IB instruction, the Middle Years Program includes students in grades 6 though 10, while the Diploma Program is geared to students 16-19, and the Primary Years Program includes students from ages 3 to 12. (See the story in the April 3 issue, or online at www.addisonindependent.com.)

District officials are aware the idea will be controversial among ACSD teachers, parents and students, as well as community residents.

“I think any time you’re looking at grade configuration, there’s a lot you need to consider,” ACSD Supt. Peter Burrows told the Addison Independent.

“One is adolescent development — what kind of environment it is for the student. And that’s what initially started this process, a feeling that people wanted to look at research (and address the question) ‘Are 6th-graders more suited to a middle school environment?’”

Initial community resistance is inevitable. With school populations declining, few community schools want to see student numbers shrink even more.

The number of sixth-graders in each elementary school illustrates the concern: Bridport Central School: 8 out of 72 students are in the sixth grade; Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial has 7 out of 81; Middlebury’s Mary Hogan Elementary, 72 out of 446; Ripton Elementary, 3 out of 47; Salisbury Community, 13 out of 101; Shoreham Elementary, 12 out of 80; and Weybridge Elementary, 8 out of 50.

Had this transition occurred this year, 123 sixth-graders would have joined the 253 seventh- and eighth-graders at MUMS for a total student body of 376 in a building that hosted 450 students when it was built 20 years ago.

A host of questions leap to the fore, which is why district leaders have established a three-month effort to get community reaction. The superintendent will first go on a “listening tour” to all seven elementary schools with meetings held between 3 and 4:30 p.m.; a community survey will be distributed starting April 7 to get the maximum response; and three community forums will be held in May at as yet undetermined locations. (Go to www.acsu.org for updates.)

At the upcoming forums, ideally the conversations would first focus on what’s best for the students’ educational outcome; and secondarily, how it might affect the towns’ elementary schools and the various ways those concerns can be addressed.

What’s most encouraging is that the school district is actually talking about how to improve educational outcomes and academic excellence and bringing that conversation to the community, rather than have the community only focus on the budget and its impact on property taxes once a year at Town Meeting. That’s a welcome development in itself.

We encourage district residents to not only think about this particular issue (moving the sixth grade to the middle school), but also about ways to improve student outcomes. Then talk with neighbors and your child’s teachers; and, finally, be at one of the three forums to share your thoughts and concerns. A recommendation to the district board will be made in June, and a board vote will decide the outcome at that time.

If you want to have a say, you’ll have to get involved.

Angelo Lynn

‘A body blow’ to the Senate Senate Democrats will oppose the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court for many good reasons. And if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is to be believed, he will employ the “nuclear option,” perhaps forever changing the rules of the Senate to approve Gorsuch’s nomination by a simple majority vote. The Republican Party will then have successfully denied President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in an affront to Senate rules and tradition, while also changing Senate rules to put Trump’s first nominee onto the Court.

To those who say it’s no big deal and is a “good thing” to employ the “nuclear option,” as McConnell maintains, Republican Sen. John McCain had this response: “Idiot, whoever says that is a stupid idiot, who has not been here and seen what I’ve been through and how we were able to avoid that on several occasions.” McCain made the remark Wednesday, recalling past efforts to defuse these judicial confirmation wars. He added, in a pointed reference to McConnell and others championing the same myth (from his own party) that it will be good for the Senate: “And they are stupid and they’ve deceived their voters because they are so stupid.”

What does Sen. McCain know that McConnell and other Republicans won’t admit? He knows that it spells the end of the filibuster in all of its forms, including on legislation, and that it will destroy the Senate’s tradition of bipartisan deliberation.

“This is a body blow to the institution, and I think we’re on a slippery slope,” McCain told the Washington Post.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, agreed with his fellow Republican. “Everybody says: ‘Oh, we are never going to do it on legislation.’ Come on,” Corker said in the Post’s story, adding that the pressure from the respective party bases will become too much.

“Give me a break. Somebody is not living in reality.”

Americans should note that what prompted this significant change in the nation’s political discourse and function has been the extremism of today’s Republican Party. It started most recently with Republicans filibustering almost all of President Obama’s appointees to his administration, not because of their qualifications or conflicts of interests or any valid concern, but simply to slow down his agenda. That prompted Senate Democrats to employ the “nuclear option” for Obama’s appointments during the first two years of Obama’s presidency. Since then, the partisanship has escalated dramatically.

To think that this further blow to the institution will be “good” is to live in a world of falsehoods, afraid to speak the truth of the harm that is being done by their own actions. It will be McConnell’s legacy, much as Sen. Joseph McCarthy is a footnote in the history of those troubled times.

Angelo Lynn

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Reading effort, article praised

What a fine article about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and Addison County Readers (Addison Independent, March 30). The Friends of Ilsley Public Library donated $22,000 to the program over the past 10 years.

This is just one of the ways the members of the Friends contribute to making this great library and this terrific community even greater.

(That’s a lot of used books at $1 each and a lot of memberships that start at $5 each.) Yay, readers!

Ray Hudson Middlebury

Hosting visitors in Florida wrong

Unfinished business

A BEAVER’S WORK remains unfinished on the banks of Otter Creek in Middlebury Tuesday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Bucket or not, goals remain vital The idea of a bucket list comes from the idiom “kick the bucket.” It assumes that there are experiences or achievements that one hopes to have or accomplish during one’s lifetime. I resist the idea that I should have a bucket list.

According to World Life Expectancy, a white woman in Vermont lives to the average age of 82.61. So, if I live out my natural lifetime, I might be around for another twelve to twenty years. Possibly long enough to see my grandchild grow into a young woman — to see who she becomes.

“And time is a curious thing,” writes Fredrik Backman in “A Man Called Ove.” “Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us. A few days,

By Johanna weeks, years. One of the most painful Nichols moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead. And when time no longer lies ahead of one, other things have to be lived for . . . Afternoons in the sun with someone’s hand clutched in one’s own. The fragrance of flower beds in fresh bloom. Sundays in a café.

Grandchildren ... One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else’s future.”

I find myself entering into the developmental stage of “young old age.” Hearing myself saying, “I’m getting older.” Realizing that I don’t get as much done in a day as I used to which either means I am getting slower or life is getting faster! Losing some strength in my hands.

A body with aches and pains that come and go. Feeling a

Ways of Seeing

little reluctance to hop on an airplane.

Friends in their 80s and 90s laugh when I speak of growing older. I observe their exercise routines and their activities — I can tell you that I could not keep up with them.

I visited an exhibit in the Oakland Museum of California created by a young woman who walked along San Pablo Avenue and asked people “what message would your 80-year-old self have for you?” She turned the responses into colorful art. I remember: Life is precious; You’ll get through it; It is possible.

I asked some of my friends who are in their eighties, from your years of wisdom, what messages do you have for those younger than you? Here is what they said: Take advantage of opportunities — physical activities, because you don’t know how much longer you will be able to do so; be with family even if far flung; savor the beauty of the world around you; keep active — physically and mentally; take time to laugh.

Accept change, however reluctantly. Do things that make you feel good, feel happy. Don’t put off things you want to do and, yes, make a bucket list.

In recent months, I see friends in their later years feeling the institutions they value and have supported all their lives seriously challenged. With a sense that time is running out, they persist. “One finds a way to live for someone else’s future.” I feel the same.

French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault (See Ways of seeing, Page 5A)

Work remains after budget adoption Last week, the Vermont House passed the state budget for fiscal year 2018 by a near-unanimous vote. The Senate is likely to follow suit later this month. The Legislature appears on track for adjournment before May 15.

The House leadership — Democratic Speaker Mitzi Johnson and Republican Minority Leader Don Turner — both said they appreciated the bipartisan spirit in which the House approved the budget. The contrast between Montpelier and Washington in this regard could not be more profound.

Gov. Scott noted that the House budget met the fiscal criteria he set out at the beginning of the session. The budget was balanced without having to resort to new taxes or fees, and the growth rate in state spending — about 1 percent, according to Speaker Johnson — was lower than the rate of growth in the state’s overall economy.

The consensus on the budget demonstrates that divided government does not have to be an impediment to action. However, the session will likely end in May without resolving several other issues that are By Eric L. Davis important priorities for many individuals and organizations in Vermont.

Progressive Party leaders and progressive-minded voters — an important constituency within the Democratic Party — will be disappointed that three bills high on their agenda are unlikely to emerge from committee this year. The first year of the biennium will probably end without action on increasing Vermont’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next several years, on establishing a paid family and medical leave program for those workers whose employers do not already offer such a benefit, and on legalizing and regulating the recreational use of small amounts of marijuana. Progressive activists will urge the Democratic

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leadership to move ahead on these bills in 2018, even if they end up being vetoed by Gov. Scott.

Two other important issues — funding for lake cleanup and rebalancing education spending — will be carried over to 2018 and beyond. In January, State Treasurer Beth Pearce presented the Legislature with a detailed report on sources of funding for the state’s share of a multiyear effort to clean up the state’s waterways, particularly Lake Champlain. Legislation implementing this report was considered by several committees, but final action is not likely until either 2018 or 2019.

Short-term funding sources for the cleanup program are available through 2019. However, the long-term future of the project could be seriously jeopardized if cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency budget proposed by the Trump Administration and enacted by the Republican Congress substantially reduce EPA grants to the states.

These federal grants are the largest single funding source for Vermont’s lake cleanup program.

In his budget address in January, Gov. Scott challenged the Legislature to level-fund K-12 school spending for 2017-18 in order to provide additional resources for both early childhood education and public higher education. Because the governor’s proposal came shortly before most school boards had finalized their budgets for town meeting, and because it had not been discussed with stakeholders prior to being announced, nothing happened on the education finance front this year. The Legislature will, however, commission yet another study on school spending.

Gov. Scott is now in a strong position politically, both because of the relatively uneventful and harmonious (See Davis, Page 5A)

As an immigrant and naturalized citizen of this country, I was thrilled and delighted to visit Washington, D.C., and tour the seat of our government. As a family we “did” Washington: the Capitol Building, the Library of Congress, the museums, the Mall — we did it all.

Most inspiring to me was the White House, that home of the sitting president. It is not a palace or castle built by a monarch or despot, but our White House was built by the people, for their chosen leader, and is the “People’s House.”

It is therefore with shock and outrage that I see our present leader entertaining foreign dignitaries not at this symbol of our democracy, but at his exclusive, rich-and-famous-only, golf resorts. These resorts are the complete antithesis of everything the White House stands for. The President’s actions show a fundamental lack of understanding of the values and history of this country. I feel it is an insult to visiting foreign leaders who expect to be entertained at the White House. Imagine the Queen of England entertaining President Trump at the Buckingham Palace Tea Shop.

If this were not enough, the cost of security at these various resorts is staggering. At the same time, security and staff are still retained at the White House. A budget that takes funding from social programs, but allows huge amounts of money to be spent on unnecessary security, is morally wrong. Not only that, but it further enriches an extremely wealthy man and his family at the expense of the people he has sworn to serve. America no longer needs to welcome “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” It is creating plenty of its own!

Lindsay Hart Middlebury

Legal pot not the proper solution

The issue of “marijuana legalization” as presented is not truly about legalization. Truthfully, the solutions proposed are about new regulations for the financial gain of the state. True legalization would be complete deregulation, which is not the proposed agenda. Lawmakers are in a conflict of interest, which clouds their understanding. Some clarity is in order. I oppose legalizing marijuana in Vermont for the following reasons.

Drug use is unhealthy. Habitual use of marijuana interferes with personal growth and development.

Legalization gives a level of approval to recreational drug use that encourages an unhealthy populace.

“Legalization” of some aspects of marijuana use is not the same as deregulation. Legalizing with qualifications such as: possession up to so much per person, up to so many plants per person, above a certain age etc. will be more complicated to enforce than no legalized aspects at all. The culture of marijuana use is a long history of a culture outside the law. There is no reason to believe that all of a sudden marijuana users will respect a new law that places any limits on their activities.

Giving consideration to the two reasons above, I predict the following scenario. Activities outside the law will continue because that is the nature of the problem, and under-age use will continue and even have a stimulus through increased availability of marijuana.

A whole bureaucracy will be created to oversee collecting taxes on marijuana sales and enforcement of the new laws. Black market supply will continue, based on price.

(See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 6, 2017 — PAGE 5A

Finding the ‘possible’ in divestment The old saying goes that politics is companies. the art of the possible.

Despite all the conveniences of Nowhere has that been more ap- modern life that fossil fuels have parent in Vermont politics than in the brought us, today’s companies are battle over fossil fuel divestment. now rightly seen as dangerous polThe global effort to divest major luters. Their dinosaur business plans institutions out of fossil fuels — to require wrecking the planetary clisell off any assets they held in coal, mate, and their financial and politgas and oil companies ical might imperil the — began on college necessary transition to campuses six years ago. clearer energy.

It soon spread to othLou Allstadt, a former er institutions. Now it’s senior executive at Mobeen joined by big playbil Oil, put it this way: ers such as Norway’s “Divestment is speeding sovereign investment up the clock on the fifund, the German final accounting that will nancial services giant show fossil fuels are out Allianz, and California’s and clean energy is in.” pension fund. They have A late-2016 statement all committed to partialfrom May Boeve, a Midly or fully divest out of dlebury College grad fossil fuel polluters. and head of divestment Globally, organileader 350.org, summed zations and individuup the scope of the als have collectively movement: pledged to sweep fossil “As the hottest year in fuels out of portfolios by Gregory Dennis history comes to a close, that are worth more than the success of the glob$5 trillion. Divestment al fossil fuel divestment is no longer some quirky college-kid movement is undeniable,” she said. idea.

“Divestment has permeated every Even the Rockefeller Family sector of society: from universities Fund, whose fortune was founded and pension funds, to philanthropic on oil, is divesting. and cultural institutions, to cities, This movement for cleaner invest- faith groups, insurance companies ments has exposed the “carbon bub- and more.” ble”: the long-term financial risks inHere in Vermont, early efforts to volved with fossil fuel investments. get Middlebury College and UVM In the short term we’ve already seen to divest sputtered in the face of coal company bankruptcies and staunch “no’s” from trustees. But plunging oil company stocks. others — Green Mountain, Sterling The campaign has also succeeded and Goddard colleges — have joined in beginning to stigmatize fossil fuel the scores of U.S. colleges and uni-

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versities that refuse to invest in dirty fuel companies.

Divestment makes a lot of sense for a state like Vermont, where green jobs provide an economic bright spot and where state government has theoretically committed itself to having 90 percent of its total energy sources be renewable by 2050.

Last year, then-Gov. Peter Shumlin called on the state to divest out of coal companies and ExxonMobil.

That followed revelations Exxon knew about the dangers of climate change for more than 20 years and hid that knowledge from investors and the public. (Side note: former ExxonMobil CEO is now the U.S. Secretary of State, which shows you who’s running the show in Washington these days.)

There was also ample precedent for Vermont to divest out of morally objectionable companies.

As part of the successful global effort to make apartheid South Africa a pariah, the state divested out of companies that did business with the racist regime. Vermont also divested out of tobacco companies, at the direction of then-Treasurer Jim Douglas, the Middlebury Republican.

But the actual process of divesting Vermont from fossil fuels — well, that’s proved over the past couple of years to be a long and winding road.

Nonetheless, thanks to recent actions, the state is now a leader in adopting a cleaner, greener investment policy for its $4 billion pension funds. Those investments cover teachers, state employees and many municipal employees.

(See Dennis, Page 7A)

Letters to the Editor Farm-to-School program worth modest investment

I am a home childcare provider and educator in Bristol, and I support expanding Farm-to-School in Vermont to include childcare, and increasing state funding to $500,000 to help more children experience Farm-to-School.

In the past year, I was fortunate to participate in a series of workshops hosted by Shelburne Farms that introduced me to the Farm-to-School program. It was a unique, important, and wholesome experience, and I believe that Farm-to-School should be gifted to every Vermont child.

There are many reasons why Farm-to-School for our youngest

Vermonters is necessary. First, there are too many hungry children and families in Vermont. Young children need access to good nutritious foods to develop strong growing bodies, develop intelligent, functioning brains, and have happy, comforted souls.

Second, using local farm-raised products is critical as they are the best for babies and children for proper growth, and purchasing local food supports our local farm economy.

Finally, developing healthy eating habits is best started in the early years. This is an investment that will

put Vermont’s children at a great advantage throughout their lives.

As a lifelong childcare provider and educator for children of all ages, I can attest to how important healthy food and lifestyle are, and the positive effects they have on children’s ability to function and thrive. We need to do the very best we can for our small Vermonters, their families, and our wonderful communities. I hope that our legislators will invest in our children and our farms, and work to get this important program funded at $500,000.

Patti Smith Bristol

This country needs to build a wall — around its leader Enough is more than enough!

How much longer are we going to have to put up with this tyrant Trump?

I hope the some of those that voted for him are starting to see that he and his policies are damaging our country from within and in the eyes of the world. We are all adversely affected by his attempts to roll back the hard-fought accomplishments to clean up our environment, his persecution and

discrimination against members of our nation that aren’t white, his collusion with the rich in order to sow corruption, his attempts with his cohorts in the Repugnantan party to steal health benefits from millions, his attempts to weaken our public education system, his desires to weaken labor laws that protect workers, his unleashing the military to disregard all caution when bombing targets in the Middle East that are resulting in a

huge number of civilian casualties and that are a great recruiting tool for ISIS and Al Qaeda, and how he continues to lie and lie about virtually everything else! He, his supporters and his party are dangerous, and are driving this country toward fascism.

Let’s give Donald J. Trump his wall. A wall around him, that is, and give us our country back!

Bruce Acciavatti Bristol

wage than I want to see my state coming to rely on drug sales to meet a failing budget, another slip-

pery slope.

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) Growth of plants for personal use will ignore any restrictions.

The net result will be further entrenching of drugs in American culture at a time when we need alert, involved, educated citizens.

I believe our government should be working to create an environment that lets people flourish. There are many more pressing issues that government could be working on — like how to create an economic environment where people can find meaningful work. I would rather see work put into finding a way to pay agricultural workers the minimum

Steve Reynolds Cornwall

Plato’s ‘Republic’ in a nutshell

By Victor Nuovo Plato wrote the Republic to give expression to an ideal of a city in which a perfect justice has been established in all of its parts. He was not naive. He did not suppose that his ideal city could be easily realized, if at all; in the end he concluded that it could not. Yet his pessimism never led him to conclude that the ideal was false, only that it was less accessible to thought.

Thus, the idea of justice, which is the central theme of the Republic, became transcendent.

Justice is a moral virtue, a ruling characteristic of a life well lived.

Plato supposed that there are four cardinal virtues essential to being good: courage, temperance, prudence and justice—he occasionally added others, such as a quick wit, good memory, and greatness of soul or magnificence, which is an ability to imagine and achieve great things beyond the merely personal or parochial.

Justice is distinct from all of these. One may be brave, temperate, prudent and uniquely gifted and still live an immoral life. Indeed, without justice these qualities merely enhance corruption.

Justice makes the difference: it includes all the other virtues and outstanding qualities in itself and endows them with that special quality that it uniquely exemplifies, without which nothing can have moral value. What is this quality? What is justice?

It is the ruling virtue of civil society and the individual soul, of the city and its government. The answer lies here.

Among the key features of justice is that it does no harm: conflicts are mediated; punishment is restorative, never vengeful. Justice is also tolerant and impartial; differences in gender identity and sexual preference make no political or moral difference. The aim of just government is to provide gainful and useful employment for all its inhabitants and the material

Ways (Continued from Page 4A) wrote “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” I trust our persistence to create some ripples.

American writer Rebecca Solnit assures us, “You do what you can.

What you’ve done may do more than you can imagine for generations to come. You plant a seed and a tree grows from it; will there be fruit, shade, habitat for birds, more seeds, a forest, wood to build a cradle or a house? You don’t know. A tree can live much longer than you. …You do what you can do; you do your best; what what you do does is not up to you.”(from “Hope in the Dark”).

Maybe I do have a few wishes. I would like to visit Paris. I would like to see a woman president of the United States. I would like to live into the future of my grandchild.

Johanna Nichols is a grandmother, writer and Unitarian Universalist minister emerita. She welcomes responses to these columns at nichols. johanna@gmail.com.

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Davis (Continued from Page 4A) legislative session and because of his willingness to speak out against Trump administration initiatives on immigration and health care reform.

Scott should expend some of his political capital in the second half of 2017 working with school boards, the NEA, leaders in the pre-K and post-secondary education sectors, and legislators, to develop a plan to shift resources over time from K-12, where enrollment is declining, to pre-K and post-12 education so that it could be presented to the Legislature in January 2018.

Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College.

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means to subsist and to flourish; choose to be a just ruler? And if free education for all, as much as the task of just rulers is to create a anyone is able to receive, from truly just society, why would anypre-natal care through higher ed- one want to be a part of it, for the ucation. And there is an equitable selfish question “what’s in it for redistribution of excess wealth. me” must always have a negative Finally, justice is imanswer? partial and equitably Plato’s revelation is maintained. that it is the only way To achieve these to secure lasting hapends is the duty of piness. Only the just those who govern. can be happy. Seeking Much of the Repubone’s own advantage lic is devoted to their before all else only education. The rulers causes misery to oneand guardians of a self most of all. city must be persons, Plato’s defense of male or female, who this claim is tied to his are: gifted, capable of admittedly paradoxself-mastery, indifferical claim that only ent to their own per- Thinking about philosophers should sonal interests, and rule. He is not referpolitics — who have renounced ring to the ordinary the origins personal fame and run-of-the-mill phifortune or any other losopher. He meant An essay by variety of personal someone who has perVictor Nuovo gain (even reputasisted in philosophical Middlebury College enquiry to its ultimate tion). They are also selfless, caring only goal and glimpsed Beprofessor emeritus for the welfare of the ing itself, which he of philosophy people whom they equated with the very have been trained to Idea of Goodness, govern and protect; are never self- which is not a mere idea, but the ish; never wanting to get even, or cause of existence. desiring a reward for their accomHe believed that truth of this sort plishments or approval or praise; is not arrived at by an empirical who are so constant in securing the method, by experiment and inducgood of the governed that they are tion, but by purely intellectual or taken for granted or even despised. logical pursuits, whereby the mind Yet they bear all with equanimity ascends to truth through a play of and grace. concepts. Its ascent is marked by Justice is that quality that makes a degrading of the particular and them so; it is the form of their material—he called his method lives and the quality of all they do. “dialectic,” whereby the mind Some commentators have noted a leaves behind the everyday world similarity of Plato’s just ruler with of sensory experience and by pure the suffering servant: “He was de- reason ascends to the realm of spised and rejected by men; a man forms; there it contemplates the of sorrows and acquainted with archetypes of every being, chief grief, and as one from whom men among them forms of “pure valhide their faces, he was despised ue,” such as Justice itself, Beauty and we esteemed him not. Surely itself, and, finally, the Good all by he has born our griefs…” (Isaiah itself — radiant, pure, infinitely vi53:3–4). tal and captivating. These are not ********** mere abstractions, but potent realiIf Plato is correct about justice, ties, inexhaustible causes of being. one wonders why anyone would (See Nuovo, Page 7A)

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ADDISON COUNTY

Obituaries

Frank Anthony Mazza Sr., 89, Brandon

BRANDON — Frank Anthony Mazza Sr., age 89, died Sunday, April 02, 2017, at Mountain View Center in Rutland.

Mr. Mazza was born in Colchester on July 24, 1927. He was the son of Joseph and Mary (Perrino) Mazza.

He grew up in Colchester and received his education in Colchester and Winooski Schools. He was a graduate of St. Michael’s College and furthered his education with graduate courses in administration for the University of New Hampshire. He served in the United States Army during WW II, in the European Theatre of Operations, attaining the rank of Personnel Sergeant Major.

He has been a resident of Brandon since 1965, moving here from Pittsford. Frank has always participated in his community and state and has served as: Chairman of the Otter Valley Union High School Board, Chairman of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, President of the Vermont School Boards Association, DORIS DOOLITTLEModerator for the Town of Pittsford, QUATTROCCI Moderator for the RNESU, President Kingdom Hall on Rt 116, in East of the Pittsford Village Corporation, a Middlebury at 2 p.m. Dale Orvis will be officiating.◊

Doris Doolittle-Quattrocci, 92, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Doris Doolittle-Quattrocci, born September 5, 1924, to Alfred and Ora Robidoux, died March 31, at 92 years of age.

She was predeceased by husbands Mort Doolittle and John Quattrocci, son Morton Doolittle, and brothers Albert Robidoux and Joseph Robidoux. Doris leaves behind her sister Rita and husband Francis Brown of Bristol, Brother Alfred Robidoux of Ct. Daughters Darlene and husband Donald Okenquist of Middlefield, Ct., Claudia and husband John Cassata of Meriden, Ct., and Gail Scott of Mont., and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She also leaves step-children David Quattrocci and wife Diane of Ferrisburgh, Mike and Sharon Quattrocci of Madison, Ct., Daniel Quattrocci of Lincoln, Timothy and Andrea Quattrocci of Middletown Ct., Debra and Chris Frost of Ware Mass. along with many grandchildren.

There will be a service for Doris Monday April 3 at The Middlebury

Vivian Werner, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Vivian Virginia Verch Werner died on April 4. She was born in Albany, N.Y., daughter of the late Eva Pettit Verch and the late Theodore Verch. Mrs. Werner was a graduate of Albany Academy for Girls, Albany, N.Y. and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheelock College in Boston, Mass.

In 1943, Mrs. Werner married the late Dr. Arthur Werner, a practicing dentist in New York City and retired Captain in the Dental Corps of the U S. Naval Reserve.

A long-time resident of Greenwich, Ct., Mrs. Werner moved to Middlebury in 1999. She is survived

by her son, Douglas Arthur Werner and his Daughter Eleonore, and her son, Steven George Werner, his wife, Kathleen, and their daughters Sara Brooke and Rebecca Lynn. She is also survived by her son-in-law, Thomas Paul Galinski, and grandsons Todd Werner Galinski and Gregg Werner Galinski. She was pre-deceased by her daughter Leslie Pettit Werner Galinski.

Mrs. Werner was a member of the Greenwich Ct. First Congregational Church and the Congregational Church of Middlebury.

There are no calling hours, Burial will be private.◊

Joseph Martel, 73, Vergennes VERGENNES —Joseph J. Martel, 73, died Friday, March 31, at Porter Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was born May 19, 1943 in Milford, N.H., the son of Kenneth and Mabel (Burgson) Martel. Joseph was a member of the Shoreham Congregation Church and served as a Deacon.

He is survived by his wife Inez (Pineo) Martel of Vergennes, by sons, Joseph J. Martel II and Barry Martel both of Milford, N.H., by his daughters, Penny Stone and April Martel both of Milford, N.H., by his step sons, Dale Durant and wife Sherry of Shoreham and Daniel Durant and wife Judy of Brandon,

by his brother William Martel of Milford, N.H. and his sister Janice Martel of Mass. Also by his 15 grandchildren and special grandchildren Jesse, Katie and Kendra Durrant. He was predeceased by his siblings, Jerry, Victor and Michael Martel.

Memorial contributions may be made to Shoreham Congregational Church or Addison County Home Health & Hospice and Meals on Wheels. There will be no service at this time. Arrangements are under the direction of the SandersonDucharme Funeral Home. Online condolences at www.sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

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member of the Pittsford School Board, a Director of the Vermont Conference of Social Welfare, President of the Rutland County School Directors Association, a trustee of the Brandon Area Rescue Squad, a member of the American Association for Public Administration, a member of the Executive Committee of New England Probation and Parole Officers Association, and the Vermont State Employees Association, serving that organization as President, Trustee, Vice President and the Vermont State Personnel Board.

Frank was also a probation officer before going to work at the Brandon Training School where he was Director of Residential Care.

Included in his duties was the administration of the BTS Life Safety Code and the development of the health and safety standards for community care homes. Frank retired in 1978 and continued serving his town as a member of the Brandon Board of Selectmen. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, hiking, his Labrador Retrievers and Quarter Horses. He was an avid amateur naturalist with a

Ferrisburgh

FA grad Kris Johannesson, this course will focus on how you can plan, write and develop a compelling memoir of your own. Preregistration is required, with limited seating. To register call the library at 877-2211 or email Muir Haman at muir. haman@bixbylibrary.org.

Everyone is invited to enjoy a fun evening at the Bixby viewing the film, “The Secret Life of Pets.” on Friday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. This computer-animated comedy depicts the troubles and plights of a motley crew of pets who have a range of adventures while their owners are at work for the day. There will be a big screen set-up with lots of popcorn for a fun evening for the whole family.

Bixby Library is hosting a family literacy event on Saturday, April 8 from 9-11 a.m. This is for the whole family to enjoy — a fun event that encourages students to recognize reading as a superpower!

The first scheduled hearing on Ferrisburgh’s proposed town charter will take place on Monday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center.

A copy of the proposed charter is posted on the town website, www. ferrisburghvt.org, and also available at the Town Clerk’s office. The second scheduled hearing on the proposed charter will take place on Monday, April 17, at 6:30 pm, at the Town Hall. The town-wide vote, by Australian ballot, on the proposed charter, will take place on Thursday, May 11. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Ferrisburgh Grange’s “King Pede” card party will be held on Saturday, of April 15, at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center at 6:30 p.m. The socializing begins with a sandwich supper and then on to an evening of fun and card games. All are welcome.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is sponsoring two summer opportunities for teens.

The Champlain Discovery Kayak

FRANK ANTHONY MAZZA lifelong love of the outdoors.

Surviving is his wife; Barbara (Carrier) Mazza of Brandon; whom he married in St. Mark’s Church in Burlington, on April 3, 1948, 2 sons; Frank A. Mazza, Jr and his wife

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Program at the Museum will be held June 19-July 22 for boys and girls age 13-16. In the five-week summer program, participants age 13-16 build their own 17’ sea kayak and then embark on a 10-day paddling adventure exploring Lake Champlain from Whitehall, N.Y. to Burlington. Financial aid is available.

Contact Nick Patch at LCMM: 475-2022 x113 or nickp@lcmm. org to receive an application or to answer any questions you might have. You can also check out the Champlain Discovery page on the Maritime Museum’s website at http://www.lcmm.org/education/

makes Lake Champlain so special.

Campers will be living outdoors and rowing every day so come prepared for some hard-work, good fun and incredible teamwork. Scholarships are available so contact Nick Patch at LCMM: 475-2022 x113 or nickp@lcmm.org.

On April 9, from 2-4 p.m., the Ferrisburgh Historical Society invites the public to a tour of the Ferrisburgh workshop of Craig Farrow, master furniture maker and joiner. As a joiner, turner, carver, and cabinetmaker, doing restoration, preservation and consultation, Craig works in traditional, meticulous ways, using antique tools and

Ferrisburgh Events April 6: April 7: April 8: April 9: April 10: April 10: April 15: April 17: April 18: April 19:

Deborah of Middlebury and Robert J. Mazza and his wife Susan of Waterbury, 2 brothers; Richard Mazza and his wife Dolly of Colchester and John Mazza and his wife Gloria of Milton, 3 grandchildren; Sonia Caldas and her husband Jason of Lakeview, Mass., Cody Mazza of South Burlington and Kayla Mazza of Waterbury and a great grandson, Jackson Caldas of Lakeview, Mass.

He was predeceased by his parents and 2 brothers; Joseph Mazza, Jr and Robert E. Mazza.

Honoring his wishes, there will be no public calling hours or funeral service. A private graveside committal service and burial with military honors will take place at later date in The Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Randolph.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made in his memory to the Brandon Free Public Library, 2 Franklin Street, Brandon, or the Brandon Area Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 232, Brandon, VT 05733.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.◊

Memoir writing workshop at the Bixby 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Friday night film at The Bixby 6:30 PM Family Reading Bixby Library 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Ferrisburgh Historical Society tour Farrow woodworking 2:00 PM Ferrisburgh Central School PTO Meeting at FCS 6:30 PM First hearing on proposed town charter at Ferrisburgh Town Hall 6:30 PM Ferrisburgh Grange King Pede card party 6:30 PM Second hearing on proposed town charter at Ferrisburgh Town Hall 6:30 PM Ferrisburgh Town Selectboard meeting 6:30 PM ANWSU/FCS Board Meetings at VUHS 6:00 PM

champlain_discovery.htm Also offered by the Maritime Museum is the Expedition Champlain — A Rowing/Wilderness Voyage of Discovery. This camp will be held from July 29-August 5 for boys and girls ages 13-16. Campers will explore the wonders of Lake Champlain for seven days by rowing six-oar 32’ rowing boats. The trip will start at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and venture north towards Canada, camping and exploring along the way.

Participants row as a team in traditional wooden rowing gigs, learning maritime and wilderness camping skills and experiencing first-hand the cultural and natural world that

finishes. He also has made his own tools if necessary to recreate an antique with faithful precision.

Craig works out of his one-man shop and teaches classes at historic sites including Historic Deerfield Mass. His skill with tools and working wood is something Craig is passionate about sharing. During the visit, Craig will show examples and demonstrate how the wonderful work of our past was made from the tree to the finished piece.

Craig’s workshop and home is located at 240 Lewis Creek Drive, just off of Route 7 north of Dakin Farm. Contact Silas Towler at 425-3380 for more information.

With warm weather coming, it’s

time to think about summer camps.

A summer adventure camp is open to Vergennes area students entering grades 5-8 and is held on the ropes course at Vergennes High School.

The camp will run the week of June 19-23 from 9 a.m.-12:00 noon each day. Campers will be able to experience games, low rope activities and high ropes elements as well. For more information visit the website vuhs.org where you will find the forms, or contact Sarah Cook at scook@anwsu.org.

Cost per participant is $100 and includes a T-shirt. A $50 deposit with the application form will hold the reservation. The remaining cost can be paid on the first day of camp.

The Commodore Friends of Music (FOM) is a group supporting the musicians at Vergennes Union High School in a variety of ways.

The FOM conduct several fundraisers to support an ambitious list of projects for the music students.

There are many ways that friends, family, and the community can help.

For information, please contact the FOM by email at 0commodorefom@gmail.com or via their Facebook page at www.facebook. com/commodorefriendsofmusic/.

Ferrisburgh Central School’s April break will be from Monday, April 24 to Friday April 28. For parents who need some constructive and fun activities for their children during the break, the LiveYers are again offering the April vacation camp at FCS. Please click on the following link above for more information: www.gbymca. o rg / y o u t h - d e v e l o p m e n t / c a m p / school-vacation.

Note: We are always interested in including a variety of Ferrisburghrelated news in this column, so if you have news that would be of interest, contact Sally Kerschner at smwkersch@comcast.net. You are able to access these columns and other information about Ferrisburgh news and events by viewing the Ferrisburgh Town Websites at www.ferrisburghvt.org.

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Workshops will cover the basics of backyard composting, and will have both an indoor presentation and an outdoor demonstration component.

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Instructor to share insights on Aikido Nuovo BRISTOL – Aikido holds a unique place among martial arts forms. Although it includes the lineage of ancient forms, Aikido was developed in Japan in the twentieth century. The One World Library Project brings Aikido practitioner and instructor Linda White to Lawrence Memorial Library on Thursday, April 13 from 7-8:30 p.m. to discuss and demonstrate this non-violent martial art form.

Aikido means, “the way of uniting ki.” Practitioners may initially appear to be engaged in a fight; however, Aikido is about resolving conflict in a harmonious way. Audience members will be invited to try one or two simple exercises to experience some of the mind-body connection at the heart this form.

White is currently Chief Instructor of Blue Heron Aikido Dojo, founded

by Jonathan Miller-Lane in Middlebury in 2004. She began practicing Aikido in 1982 during a three-year stay in Japan. While there, she was introduced to an inspiring teacher, Tada Hiroshi Sensei, with whom White continues to train whenever she returns to Japan.

Aikido is taught through demon-

AIKIDO INSTRUCTOR LINDA White will offer a free presentation/demonstration about Aikido at Lawrence Memorial Library next Thursday, April 13, at 7 p.m.

stration rather than through language, so White, who had just begun studying Japanese in 1982, could

participate equally with Japanese beginners. The athletic nature of the practice also appealed to her.

Another aspect of Aikido particularly intrigued White. “People tend to respond to an attack with a physical reaction,” she points out. “It’s important to relax and engage with a person to find a resolution.” This mind-body process was both a challenge and a fascination for White, and it has informed other aspects of her life, including parenting, teaching and dealing with stress. “The training impacts you in a complete way, so it’s always there.

In addition to teaching Aikido, White is Associate Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College. She is currently working on a book entitled “Gender and the Koseki” about Japanese feminism. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information on this event or about One World Library Project, contact the Lawrence Memorial Library at 453-2366 or go to their website at www.OneWorldLibraryProject.org or go to the One World Library Project Facebook page

House unites in vote for state budget No new fees or taxes, a 1 percent last legislative session, acknowledges budget increase and an unprecedent- the impairment of many of Vermont’s ed vote on the floor of the House that waterways and establishes actions supported these measures, to improve the quality a first in quite some time in of state waters and preMontpelier. Why was there vent further degradation. such unanimity among Our state treasurer, Beth House members? To bePearce, was charged with gin with our governor, providing a Clean Water Phil Scott, ran a campaign report, a requirement of vowing no tax increase and the Act, with the focus on a responsible budget. His estimating the cost of imwin in November said Verplementation of Act 64, monters agreed with him. as well as recommending The governor’s message possible funding sources to the Legislature that he’d to pay for the Act’s agenveto irresponsible budget

by Rep. Fred Baser, da.Using estimates from and tax actions was also R-Bristol respected. Finally, there is the agencies of Agriculconsiderable uncertainty in ture, Transportation and Montpelier about the federal govern- Natural Resources, and vetting those ment’s potential actions that could re- estimates with various stakeholdduce state aid and, as a result, wreak ers, the Treasurer reported we need havoc on the state budget. Caution $2.3 billion over a 20-year period was exercised. Will the Vermont Sen- to fund Act 64. The report acknowlate follow the House’s lead? Time edged existing funds dedicated to will tell. the Clean Water Act, and upon subAlso news was the last minute tracting those known dollars, estiabout-face on marijuana legisla- mated at $1.06 billion, arrived at a tion. Voted out of the House Judicial funding gap of $1.3 billion, the monCommittee 8 for and 3 against, the ey we need to raise to get the jobs legislation to legalize one ounce of done. This equates to an annual gap marijuana and growing two mature in funding of approximately $62.4 plants seemed posed for passage on million for 20 years. This is a big the House floor. A last hour straw number for Vermont. poll of the body revealed to propoOver the next year, two major decinents that passage was not assured. sions will need to be made in MontAs a result, the bill was referred to pelier. (1) How much of the $62.4 the Human Services Committee for million do we raise in taxes, fees, etc. “further review.” This step, while not and (2) how do we raise these dolused often by leadership, assures that lars? The Treasurer’s report included the measure can be reintroduced to 64 possible funding options, as sugthe assembly later this session or next gested by the study’s participants. A year. If the bill had been turned down few of the most interesting were a tax on the floor, legalization would likely on limousine services, a tax on generbe set back for another two years. al auto repair, taxing your haircut or An important measure that needs beauty treatment, and taxing coffee. to be addressed in Montpelier over The Treasurer chose to recommend the next 12 months is funding the funding sources that were a version Clean Water Act. Act 64, established of existing levies, and those that were

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predicable in the revenue they generated. Three major sources were identified: continue using a portion of the Property Transfer Tax, assess a per parcel or per-acre property fee and, make use of an impervious surface parcel fee recognizing storm water issues those parcels often generate.

The Treasurer’s report also suggested a shared responsibility for the $62.4 million cost of the programs. In other words the state, you and me, fund a large portion of the Act and stakeholders, cities, municipalities, farms, businesses, fund some balance of the actions that impact them directly.

How much, or if sharing will go on, is yet to be determined. Fortunately, we have a little time to make decisions, as the Treasurer found funding for the first two years of the 20-year program. We expect a recommendation from the governor within the next nine or 10 months.

Act 64 deserves priority from all of us in Montpelier. Our waterways are a precious resource. As long as we approach the questions at hand fairly, I am confident the Legislature and our governor will reach consensus on a plan of action in a timely fashion.

(Continued from Page 5A) manifesto for elitism. The elite are Merely to contemplate them brings persons perfected by justice, whose immeasurable joy without end, in judgment is determined by truth, and contrast to which all whose moral nature asother pleasures and desures that they always lights are mere infatu- Plato’s revelation do the right thing. ations, passing fancies. is that securing A city ruled and proPlato was the first justice is the only tected by such paraand perhaps the only way to secure gons of justice hardly genuine transcenden- lasting happiness. requires laws; if any talist. are needed the good Only the just But true philosojudgment of the ruler phers, knowing what can be happy. will provide them and justice is, are not al- Seeking one’s ensure that they are fit lowed to continue to own advantage to promote virtue in the dwell in this paradise before all else only city. Such is the ideal of forms. They have a causes misery to city that Plato enviduty to descend to the sions, but since it is an world of appearances oneself most of all. ideal never to be realand counterfeits. The ized, it evokes a mood very idea of justice impels them. In of deep pessimism. The nobility of this respect, Plato’s Republic is a impartial justice filled Plato’s mind

with joy, but the political realities of Athens, the corruption and backbiting, the self-serving nastiness of politicians, the phony populist rhetoric of ambitious self-promoters, and the fickleness of the people, the hoi polloi, made him despair that true justice could ever be achieved.

He concludes the Republic not with a paean of praise, but a narrative of death and rebirth, a hypothesis of the migration of souls, and a faint promise of deliverance.

In the Laws, Plato is in search of a plausible alternative to the rule of the just; a model city that exemplifies the rule of law, and which approximates justice, but may sometimes be unjust, and in any case ambiguous. His depiction of the model city launched the political practice of constitutionalism.

Dennis (Continued from Page 5A) But the state’s pension funds are not yet fully divested, despite impressive efforts by 350Vermont.org, the Sierra Club and others.

Outright divestment faced staunch opposition from state Treasurer Beth Pearce (an elected Democrat), some public employee groups, and members of the Vermont Pension Investment Committee (VPIC), which oversees pension funds.

It turned out that the “possible” in this political process was a policy statement — recently adopted by VPIC after months of study and debate — that puts the state on the path to a “low-carbon future.”

VPIC has committed to adopt better environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidelines. These will screen out investments in bad actors and promote greener, more social responsible companies.

The state will create a distinct section of its investment portfolio devoted to renewable and energy-ef-

ficiency investments. It will also continue to discuss greener investments with its financial advisors and explore working with other states to jointly clean up their portfolios.

“These steps position the Vermont fund to capitalize on a global transition to a low-carbon economy,” said Austin Davis of 350 Vermont, who’s led the statewide divestment coalition. “By revising policies and more closely monitoring these ESG factors and financial reporting, the state’s investment fund will be healthier and more profitable.”

Moreover, these steps fit nicely with the efforts of Renewable Energy Vermont, the state’s solar and wind industries, the push for “fee and dividend” pricing of carbon, and the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s campaign for a “climate economy.”

All of these groups are, in Davis’s words, “playing the long game” within the constraints of politics and finances.

Divestment supporters are keenly aware that time is running short.

But we live in a time when federal energy and environmental policies under Carbon King Trump are moving backward into the 19th century. Even in tiny Vermont, shifting to a cleaner state investment policy has proven to be a difficult process.

So given the thicket of conflicting interests around state divestment — the need for high investment returns, political opposition from Republican legislators and some public employees, and the new governorship of construction company owner Phil Scott — the success of the Vermont divestment movement shouldn’t be underestimated.

Low-carbon future, here we come.

Gregory Dennis’s column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www.gregdennis.wordpress.com. Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com. Twitter: @ greengregdennis.

Guerry to offer advice for on-line safety

MIDDLEBURY — On Thursday, April 13, Richard Guerry will present a program to parents and community members concerned about keeping your family safe online.

“Public and Permanent: Motivate Responsible Use of Technology &

Prevent Digital Abuse” will take place 7-8:30 p.m. next Thursday at Middlebury Union High School.

During this presentation Guerry will dispel the idea that anonymity and privacy are possible in our digital age. He will provide knowledge to help families promote responsi-

ble use of digital tools while also obtaining the wisdom to prevent negative, irresponsible, and malicious digital behaviors and trends.

Middlebury area students in grades 3-8 will have presentations during the school day.

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IN AN ENCORE presentation, the organization Middlebury Showing Up for Racial Justice will screen “I Am Not Your Negro,” the film about pioneering poet and civil rights activist James Baldwin (center), at the Marquis Theater on April 19.

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Religion lecture in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 6, 4:30 p.m., Hillcrest Orchard room, Middlebury College.

Visiting Lecturer, Dr. Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor, Religious Studies from the University of California, Riverside, will give a lecture titled, “Romanticizing the Premodern: Charting Indices of Indigenous and Asian Religions in Contemporary American Spirituality.” Sponsored by the Religion Department and the South Asian Studies Program.

Community bingo fundraiser in Orwell. Friday, April 7, 6:30-9 p.m., Orwell Town Hall. The Orwell Village School eighth-grade community bingo fundraiser will feature lots of great prizes, 50-50 raffle, special raffles and snack food available.

This fun annual event is a fundraiser for the OVS eighth-grade end of the year class trip.

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PlaySpace Open House and parent information session in Middlebury.

Friday, April 7, 3:30-5:30 p.m., 67 Catamount Park, Middlebury (off Exchange St.) The Counseling Service of Addison County’s play-based intervention space will be open for families and community members to explore.

Clinical staff will be on hand to answer questions.

Pizza will be provided. From 4-5, staff will offer a quick overview of ASD and provide some helpful suggestions for challenges in the home.

All you can eat fish fry in Bristol. Friday, April 7, 5-7 p.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Church Parish Hall. The menu will include fried or baked haddock, French fries, coleslaw, beverage and dessert. Adults $12.50; children age 9 and under $6; immediate family of five $37. For more information call St. Ambrose Church at 453-2488.

Wood-fired pizza bake in Ripton. Friday, April 7, 5-6:30 p.m., Ripton Elementary School.

Sponsored by Friends of Ripton School. $12 cheese and $15 pepperoni or spring special (spinach, mushroom, onion). Call or email by noon Friday to order: 388-2208 or wleeds@acsu. org.

Fish fry in Vergennes. Friday, April 7, 6-8 p.m., Vergennes Eagles Club. Fish fry at the Vergennes Eagles Club, $10 per person.

Spring Auction in Middlebury. Friday April 7, 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion in Middlebury. This live and silent auction will include gift certificates, art, lawn and garden, recreation and technology, farm and automotive, maple syrup, jewelry, premium items and more. Tickets are $7.50 and can be purchased at the door. Price includes a dessert bar and beverages. Proceeds benefit the Champlain Valley Christian School Capital Campaign Fund. Contact Grace at 759-2031 for more information.

Bingo in Orwell. Friday, April 7, 6:30-9 p.m., Orwell Town Hall. This will feature lots of prizes, a 50-50 raffle and other raffles. Snack food available. It is a fundraiser for the Orwell Village School eighthgrade end of year trip.

Spa Night for Middle School Girls in Middlebury.

Friday, April 7, 7-9 p.m., Chellis House, Middlebury College. Addison County middle school girls are invited to a spa night at Middlebury College’s Chellis House with the Sister-to-Sister Club.

There will be facemasks, nail painting, foot massages and more! Please bring a towel and wear casual clothing. For further information, contact Karin Hanta at khanta@middlebury.edu or 443-5937.

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Annual Pancake Breakfast in Salisbury. Sunday, April 8, 7:30-11 a.m., Salisbury Community School.

Sponsored by the Salisbury Fire Department.

Pancakes, bacon, sausages, beverages and all the fixings will be served. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.

Green Mountain Club Hike at Jerusalem Trail, Starksboro. Saturday, April 8, Jerusalem Trail.

Hike the moderately rated Jerusalem Trail. Hike is approximately six miles round trip with an elevation gain of over 2,300 feet. Lunch at Glen Ellen Lodge. Snowshoes or spikes depending on conditions. This is a dog-friendly hike.

Contact Ivor Hughes at brhughes@gmvat.net or 802-453-4412. For other events and activities visit www.gmcbreadloaf.org.

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, April 8, 8-10 a.m., Otter View Park. Otter Creek

Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help us survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Meet at the parking area of Otter View Park at the intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Road in Middlebury.

Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. For more information, call 388-1007 or 388-6019.

Introduction to Rug Braiding in Middlebury.

Saturday, April 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St. Join master rug braider Delsie Hoyt for an exciting master class on making braided rugs. Introduction to Rug Braiding is a beginner-level class that uses a simple, fun project — an apple-shaped trivet — as a way to learn all the basic elements needed to make a full-size round rug. The class costs $75 ($50 tuition and $25 materials). Space is limited to ten people. Call 802-373-4736 to register.

Weybridge School Tag Sale in Weybridge.

Saturday, April 8, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School, 210 Quaker Village Road.

Donations of gently used household items, clothing, toys, books and more can be dropped off at the school beginning April 6. Information: 545-2113.

Bingo in Vergennes. Saturday, April 8, 1:30-4:30 p.m., American Legion Post #14, 100 Armory Lane. Doors open at 1 p.m. $15 for 15 sheets of regular bingo (three cards per sheet). Additional money for three special bingo games, light snacks and 50/50. Cash prizes. All proceeds benefit the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 14.

Open to public.

Roast Turkey Supper in Vergennes. Saturday, April 8, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, across from the Opera House. The menu will include roast turkey, mashed potato, stuffing, vegetable, cranberry sauce, dessert and beverage served buffet style. $9 for adults and $5 for children. Takeout orders are available. Call 877-3150 for more information.

Roast Pork Dinner in Shoreham. Saturday, April 8, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Treat yourself to a dinner of roast pork with gravy, baked potatoes, mixed vegetables, rolls, beverages and apple desserts as you enjoy the company of friends and neighbors. $12 for adults and children 12 and over, $10 for seniors, and $5 for children under 12.

Good food and good fellowship are a grand combination!

Perspectives on Haiti Dinner and Lecture in Middlebury. Saturday, April 8, 5 p.m., Memorial Baptist Church. Come and enjoy Haitian foods and coffee with special guest Wildor Tiga Silain from Grand Goave, Haiti. Free to all. Call 388-7472 for more information.

Contradance in Bridport. Saturday, April 8, 7-9:30 p.m., Bridport Community/Masons Hall, on the green in Bridport, just off 22A. Dance features Adina Gordon calling to live music by Red Dog Riley. $5-10/person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. Questions? 462-3722. Hall is.

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All you can eat pancake breakfast in Addison. Sunday, April 9, 7-11 a.m., Addison Fire Station, at the junction of Routes 17 and 22A in Addison. $6/adults; $4/ kids under 12. Benefit of the Addison Volunteer Fire Department. The menu will include plain and blueberry pancakes, sausage, bacon, home fries, coffee, hot chocolate and orange juice. Funds will be used to purchase equipment. For more information, call 759-2237.

Pancake breakfast in Salisbury. Sunday, April 9, 7:30-11 a.m., Salisbury Community School.

Annual Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department pancake breakfast. $10/adults; $5 children age 12 and under. Tickets available before and at the door. Call 388-1407 or 734-7771.

Knights of Columbus breakfast in Vergennes.

Sunday, April 9, 8-10 a.m., St. Peter’s Church, 85 South Maple St. Come for a delicious breakfast of eggs, omelets (to order), hot cakes, French toast, sausage, bacon and more. Bring your family and friends! Adults $8.50; seniors over 60 $7.50; kids ages 6-12 $6; children under age 6 are free; immediate families of five or more $28. For more information call the rectory at 877-2367.

Free community dinner in Bristol. Sunday, April 9, 5-6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall.

The menu will be beef stew, rolls, beverages and dessert. Everyone welcome. Come enjoy a dinner out with friends and neighbors.

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MONDAY

Pet Trust Workshop in Middlebury.

Monday, April 10, 12-12:45 p.m., Homeward Bound, 236 Boardman St. Homeward Bound is teaming up with local attorney Carolyn Thompson to offer a special “lunch and learn” event to educate the community about Pet Trusts. To register, contact Hannah at Homeward Bound at 388-1100 ext. 224 or hmanley@homewardboundanimals.org. Only 12 seats are available. There is no cost to attend, but participants are asked to bring a brown bag lunch.

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TUESDAY

Red Cross Blood Drive in Middlebury.

Tuesday, April 11, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Middlebury EMS Building, 55 Collins Dr. Red Cross blood drive in Middlebury for National Volunteer Month. Make an appointment to donate blood by downloading the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting redcrossblood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

Architect Dina A. Griffin talks about recent work in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 11 4:30 p.m., Johnson Memorial Building, Room 304, Middlebury College. Griffin, president of Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), gives a public talk about her practice and her efforts to get more minority women interested in architecture. Her 20 years of experience includes institutional, municipal, corporate, multiunit residential, and education projects, including the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, an icon in Chicago’s architectural landscape. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Cameron Family Enrichment Fund. Free.

Tincture Making Mini-Workshop in Orwell.

Tuesday April 11, 6-7 p.m., Orwell Free Library.

An introductory workshop on simple and standardized methods for making herbal tinctures.

The workshop has a bit of math, science and mystery and is taught by local massage therapist and natural product maker Kori Mitchell.

“A Walk Through Vermont Towns” in Lincoln.

Tuesday, April 11, 7 p.m., Lincoln Library. Join Linda Barnard as she relates her travels and adventures across Vermont’s back roads, byways, and main thoroughfares with pictures, little known facts and unique stories.

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“Native Roots” in Lincoln.

Wednesday, April 12, 1 p.m., Lincoln Library. Debi Gray will talk about her Native American background and invite others to discuss their heritage. Refreshments served.

Prosthetic body and dance lecture in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 12 4:30 p.m., The Orchard, Hillcrest 103, Middlebury College. Krista Miranda presents the lecture “‘I wasn’t made to click. But with you I Click. We. Click.’: Constructing the Prosthetic Body in Claire Cunningham’s Dance Theater.” This lecture explores how the body, exemplified by Cunningham’s prosthetic body, is a malleable assemblage of both self and other shaped discursively through sex, love, history, and one’s variable capacities over time. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free.

“On Writing and Grieving” in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., CSAC Community Room, Catamount Park. Writer Julia Alvarez will give this presentation As part of the Hospice Volunteer Services annual meeting. Free and open to the public. Information at 388-4111 or pbaker@hospicevs.org.

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Seed Swap in Lincoln. Thursday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln Library. Bjorn Coburn, a home-schooler, has an affinity for seeds. He invites you to come and swap, talk, and take his seeds home for spring planting.

Rights and Democracy Community Panel in Shoreham. Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. Rights and Democracy Addison County is holding a community panel discussion at the Shoreham Elementary School (130 School Rd), focused on $15/hour minimum wage, moving forward on universal health care, and the impact of new policies emanating from Washington, DC on migrant workers in Vermont’s farm communities. This event is open to the public.

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JAZZ MASTER MILES Donahue, shown here, will lead his namesake quartet with special guest Billy Pierce in a free performance in celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month this Saturday evening at the Mahaney Center at Middlebury College.

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School. Richard Guerry will present a program to parents and community members concerned about keeping families safe online. Free.

Aikido Presentation in Bristol. Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., Lawrence Memorial Library. As part of the One World Library Project, Aikido Instructor Linda White will offer a free presentation/demonstration.

“End of The Night – A Tribute to the Music of The Doors” in Middlebury. Thursday, April 13, 8 p.m., Middlebury’s Marquis Theater. Watch Vermont All-stars Josh Panda, Clint Bierman, Tyler Mast and Sean Preece channel “The Doors” on the big stage, and help raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). $10 cover.

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Concert of passion music for Good Friday in Middlebury. Friday April 14, 7 p.m., St Stephen’s Church. The program includes three arias from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion: “Erbarme dich mein Gott,” sung by Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer; “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,” sung by Sheerya Shivers; and “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein,” sung by Jack DesBois.

The program also includes a number of Bach Passion chorales sung by the St. Stephen’s Choir and friends. Organist George Matthew, Jr. will play chorale preludes by Bach based on the chorales sung by the choir. Free and open to the public.

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Green Mountain Club Hike at Tongue Mountain, Lake George, N.Y. Saturday, April 15, Tongue Mountain, Lake George, N.Y. Hike Dear Leap and adjacent trail on the Tongue Mountain Range of Lake George.

Beautiful views. Hike is 4-6 miles with an elevation gain of approximately 1,200 feet. This is a dog-friendly hike. Contact Susan Jefts at sjefts7@ gmail.com or 518-232-6776 or Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@comcast.net or at 802-3495653. For other events and activities visit www. gmcbreadloaf.org.

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NER reading in Middlebury. Monday, April 17, 7-8 p.m., 51 Main at the Bridge.

The literary magazine “New England Review” will continue its Vermont Reading Series when it presents readings by fiction writers Glen

Pourciau and Genevieve Plunkett, poet Bianca Stone, and Middlebury College senior Hannah Nash, representing the student-run “Frame” magazine.

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Age Well’s Third Tuesday Luncheon in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 18, noon.

A special noontime meal will feature roast pork with warm applesauce, rice pilaf, broccoli florets, tossed salad with choice of dressing, dinner roll and pound cake with strawberries for dessert. There will be certified organic regular and decaf coffee donated by Vermont Coffee Company. Advance reservations are required; call Age Well at (802) 865-0360 ext. 1070 to reserve a space. Suggested donation is $5.

Music Lecture in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 18, 4:30 p.m. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221. Lynnsey Weissenberger, adjunct professor of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University, gives a talk on “Traditions and Technologies: Music Information in a Changing World”. The talk explores the ever-changing world of music information technologies and their challenges in documenting, describing, and transmitting global musical traditions. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free.

Haitian Band Lakou Mizik in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 18, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. A multigenerational collective of Haitian musicians formed in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake will share their soulful story and deeply danceable grooves. With the help of two Middlebury College grads, this band rose from the ashes of natural disaster and political crisis to create music that The Guardian gave a four-star review and called “A joyous antidote to Haiti’s hard times.”

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American Red Cross Blood Drive in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 19, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Middlebury College, 58 Hepburn Rd. Walk in or for an appointment visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-733-2767.

Artist talk by Kate Gridley in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 19, noon, Sheldon Museum.

The Sheldon Museum will present a talk by artist Kate Gridley, who will discuss aesthetic concerns, colors, edges, abstract spaces and simple observation that inform her portrait of dolls in the Sheldon’s collection. Gridley’s photographs and actual dolls are included in the current exhibit

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For more information on the exhibit, visit www. henrysheldonmuseum.org or call 388-2117.

Business Ownership Succession Seminar in Vergennes. Wednesday, April 19, 2-5 p.m., Kennedy Brothers Co-Working & Conference Center, 11 Main St. An Introduction to business ownership succession planning by John Davis CPA, Don Jamison of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, and Bill Cherry, brewmaster and co-founder of Switchback Brewing. Limited to business owners and key managers. Free Lake Champlain Over the Years: A Visual & Historical Narrative in Orwell. Vermont Humanities Speakers Bureau Lecture, Wednesday April 19, 6 p.m., Orwell Free Library.

Lake Champlain is one of the most historic bodies of water in the US. Created through a series of geological events, it has remained within its present banks for 10,000 years. Vermont historian Don Wickman will feature tales of lake heritage coupled with illustrations.

“Memoirs of an Art Dealer (Part Two)” in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 19, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library Community Meeting Room. James Maroney, former head of American Paintings at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, who shared some of his experiences in a First Wednesdays talk on November 2nd, is returning with more stories of the art world in the 1970s. Free.

“Five-Ring Circus: Why We Can’t Live With the Olympics — or Without Them” presentation in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society Church. Sports Illustrated contributing writer Alexander Wolff will present a talk addressing the risks and rewards of the Olympic Games. Free.

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Seed swap in Middlebury. Thursday, April 20, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Ilsley Library.

Calling all seed savers. Bring your seeds and share in the gardening conversation. For more information, call Chris at 388-4095.

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MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott and Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Michael Schirling late last week announced the appointment of Wendy Knight of Panton as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing.

Knight, a longtime Addison County resident, joins the department from the private sector. Through her own marketing and communications firm, Knight and Day Communications, she developed strategic communications and marketing campaigns for a variety of international clients based in London, New York, Spain and Italy, as well as Vermont organizations. Her Vermont clients included the Vermont Grape and Wine Council, the Vermont Department of Health, and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. Knight is a former New York Times freelance writer who has written two travel books and produced online travel videos for ABC News Now. “We are very excited to have Wendy join the team,” said Gov. Scott. “Her wealth of marketing and communications expertise will be valuable as we work to market Vermont as a place to visit, live and do business. Wendy’s broad business background and appreciation of Vermont will be a tremendous asset in promoting the State to strengthen our economy.”

Secretary Schirling was equally

excited about Knight’s appointment.

“I’m pleased to welcome Wendy to the Agency of Commerce and Community Development,” he said. “Wendy has a long history of representing Vermont organizations, and is highly respected within the tourism industry, inside and outside of Vermont. As a small business owner, she understands the importance of economic development to the state, and the vital role that tourism plays in driving economic growth.”

Knight has also served as a senior managing director for a 32-employee marketing agency in New York, director of public relations for an international culinary school, and acting executive director for CIGNA HealthCare of Northern New England. She intends to apply her experience in strategic thinking and managing people and processes to the Commissioner position.

“I’m honored to join Gov. Scott’s team to help strengthen the economy for Vermonters,” said Knight. “I am eager to begin the work of promoting Vermont, her people and industries, and to deepen one of the most recognizable brands in the country — the Vermont brand.”

Knight, who has lived in Vermont since 1992, is a former Panton selectboard member and board chair of the Friends of the Vergennes Opera House that was a catalyst for the downtown revitalization of Vergennes. She graduated from Cornell University in 1987.

Notes of appreciation

Thanks to all for ski race fundraiser success Quarry Hill School would like to acknowledge the sponsors who helped make our annual ski race, The Iguana Cup Challenge, a huge fundraising success this year! Thank you for your generous support to the following local businesses: No. 1 Auto Parts, Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op, American Flatbread Middlebury Hearth, Middlebury Ski Club, Bee’s Wrap, Multi Builders, Cabot-Agrimark, National Bank Of Middlebury, Co-operative Insurance, Northshore Kite Sail Surf and Green

Peppers Restaurant.

And also Omya, IPJ Real Estate, Outdoor Gear Exchange, Jay Peak, Rainbow Pediatrics, Junebug, Rotary, Laberge Insurance, Sugarbush, Little Pressroom, Vermont Federal Credit Union, Middlebury College Snow Bowl and Wells Physical Therapy.

And a big thank you to all of our friends and families for their hard work and participation as well!

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• Adrianna Guyette, Benson, on March 24, a girl, Emmaline Rita Guyette.

• Amy-Jo Freegard & Adam Terry, North Ferrisburgh, on March 30, a girl, Mackenzie Grace Terry.

• Lyndsie & Josh Kennett, Salisbury, on Marsh 31, a girl, Harmonee Rose Kennett.

TWENTY-THREE STUDENTS from the Hannaford Career Center were inducted in to the National Technical Honors Society in a March 23 ceremony.

Hannaford honors technical students in March MIDDLBEURY — The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center inducted twenty-three students into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) on Thursday, March 23.

NTHS’s mission is to honor student achievement and leadership in career and technical education, promote educational excellence, award scholarships and enhance career opportunities. The induction ceremony recognizes deserving technical center students and increases community awareness of the talents and abilities of the young people and adults who choose technical education pathways to a successful future.

The ceremony was held in the

Middlebury Union High School auditorium. NTHS advisor Brenda Logee conducted the ceremony and gave the address to the inductees.

Current NTHS members assisted in the ceremony: Satinder Pabla recited the Purpose of NTHS, Patricia Burkins and Rebecca Maloy performed the Candle Lighting Ceremony, and Jeremy Gile led the inductees in reciting the NTHS Pledge. Program instructors Steve Small (Addison Repertory Theatre), Lisa Rader (Design and Illustration), Jackson Burnham (Engineering & Architecture), Barbara ThompsonSnow (Medical Professions), Aaron Townshend (Natural Resource

Management) and Janice Bosworth (Sustainable Agriculture) presented students with their certificates.

Director Lynn Coale and Logee presented the students with their honor cords and pins. The ceremony was followed by a reception of cake and punch for all students and guests.

National Technical Honor society Inductees include: Lillian Clark (Design & Illustration), Finn Clements (Engineering Design), Keion Correll (Engineering Design), Breanna De Smit (Engineering Design), Norah Deming (Design & Illustration), Malcolm DonovanCook (Addison Repertory

Theater), Emma Duprey (Medical Professions), Ashlynn Foster (Sustainable Agriculture), Brandon Hanley (Engineering Design), Alexa Lapiner (Design & Illustration), Satchel McLaughlin (Design & Illustration), Melina Myers (Medical Professions), Brooke Perlee (Medical Professions), Kiana Plouffe (Medical Professions), Andrew Raymond (Engineering Design), Brooke Rubright (Design & Illustration), Alyssa Saunders (Medical Professions), Lilia Smith (Design & Illustration), Adam Whitcomb (Natural Resource Management), and Willem Wormer (Engineering Design).

Cold day, warm earth

ON A SNOWY first day of April, members of the Addison County Interfaith Climate Action Network (ICAN) gathered at Triangle Park in Middlebury for their monthly vigil to “stand up” for climate justice. ICAN aims to engage the community in religious, spiritual and ethical conversations on climate change and the environment; and it holds vigils at the park on the first Saturday of every month, 10:30-11 a.m., and monthly meetings on the third Thursdays, 8:30 a.m., at the Weybridge Congregational Church.

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Porter (Continued from Page 1A) plan. She explained that the planning pull the plug on long-range facilities effort has gotten a nice jumpstart planning soon after it got started. from the prospect of the new office “We got a short way into the building on campus. At this early process and realized a few things,” stage, officials are talking about an PMC President Dr. Fred Kniffin approximately 40,000-square-foot explained in a recent message to structure that would house some of the hospital community. “First, our the current PMC provider practices strategy and vision for our future as that are now located off-campus. an organization were Some of those practices unclear. Secondly, we are located in rented had no space and no space; others are in money, so all the plans in Porter-owned buildings. the world were not going Deciding which of to move us forward.” the practices should It was a tough year get moved into the new that included layoffs, medical office building the resignation of CEO and what should be done Lynn Boggs and the with any vacated spaces defection of several are among questions the medical providers from facilities master plan the PMC network. will answer, according But Porter weathered to Woods. She doesn’t the storm and recently anticipate PMC selling took a big step toward “We recognize any of its off-campus long-term stability by that a lot of properties that would be forging an affiliation left vacant as a result of with the University the care needs the new medical office of Vermont Health to stay out in building. For example, Network (UVMHN), the community Porter could choose to an organization that — especially move some of its nonhas promised Porter primary care. clinical personnel to financial help for a new those spaces, officials Not everything medical office building said. and a substantial upgrade needs to be on “We shouldn’t bring in its electronic medical our campus; we all the people who are records system. don’t want it to out in the town here Porter officials be, nor can it — that’s a lot of South reasoned it would make be.”

Street traffic,” Woods more sense to view — Ron Hallman said. those two projects in Hallman agreed. the context of an overall “We need to be campus facilities plan. So Porter mindful that we bring the practices on is rekindling that planning process to our campus that make sense, from under the leadership of an eight- a clinical and community perspective person steering committee. and that we recognize that a lot of “We want to make sure we have a the care needs to stay out in the grand vision for all of our facilities, community — especially primary and not just do ‘one-offs,’” Porter care,” he said. “Not everything needs spokesman Ron Hallman said. “When to be on our campus; we don’t want it we got the commitment from the to be, nor can it be.”

UVMHN to invest in a new medical UVMHN has hired Halsa Advisors office building, that inspired us to step as a planning consultant for the new back and say, ‘If we move clinical office building. Lavallee Brensinger operations into this new space, that is again on board to provide is potentially going to free up space architectural services. behind it.’ All of a sudden, you realize Once completed, the new building that you want to have a plan for that is expected to be a big convenience space. You just don’t want to move for physicians and patients, according everything into a new building and to Woods. then look around and say, ‘What “This will be a new, cutting edge are we going to do with this other building with radiology and all the space?’” specialties there on campus, so (users) Rebecca Woods is Porter’s chief could just walk across the parking administrator for the facilities master lot into the Operating Room and not

Phoenix Feeds donates to Age Well NEW HAVEN — Representatives from two area businesses — Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition Inc. of New Haven and Langrock, Sperry & Wool of Burlington and Middlebury — recently presented Age Well with a $10,000 check to kick off the nonprofit organization’s 2017 March for Meals campaign.

As the largest provider of Meals on Wheels in Vermont, Age Well participates in this month-long campaign that raises awareness and funds for seniors experiencing hunger, isolation and loss of independence.

According to Meals on Wheels of America, more than 40,000 Vermont seniors are living in or near poverty and over 20,000 are threatened by hunger. Age Well oversees more than 60 meal routes in Northwestern Vermont, providing nutritious meals and safety checks to thousands of individuals each year.

“We greatly appreciate Phoenix Feed’s commitment to aging

Vermonters. Meals on Wheels delivers nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks, providing the nourishment that keeps seniors healthy and independent. This generous gift will fund a meal route for an entire year,” said Sara Wool, Age Well’s director of communications.

Phoenix Feeds, which provides farmers with feed and services, understands the importance and impact of good nutrition and healthy eating.

“We are proud to support Age Well and their March for Meals,” said Craig Newton, Phoenix Feeds’ coowner and former Addison County Meals on Wheels volunteer. “Many of our neighbors lack access to food on a daily basis. Phoenix Feeds strives to provide feed and nutrition to our farms and we work closely with partners like Age Well to do the same for our seniors.”

To learn more about Meals on Wheels, go online to www.agewellvt. org.

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have to rush across town,” Woods said. “This will apply to any specialty that is in our OR.” In addition to planning for future facilities, Porter is also preparing an employment transition for its 40 medical care providers. Those physicians will, over the course of the next 18 months, become UVMHN employees as part of the affiliation agreement. Local providers will continue to be dedicated to Porter and will not be re-deployed to other UVMH-member medical centers, according to Tom Manion, vice president for Porter Medical Group, the association of PMC provider practices. And the remaining 95 percent of PMC employees will remain Porter workers, according to Kniffin.

“Essentially, they should see no change in their jobs,” Manion said of the doctors. “They will be employed

by UVMHN and contracted back to us.”

As UVMHN employees, the providers will have access to more training opportunities and collaborations with their peers within the health network, Manion said. The UVM Health Network is currently a five-hospital system with more than 1,000 physicians, 2,000 nurses and a variety of clinicians in Vermont and northern New York.

At this point, PMC providers are generally upbeat about the impending transition, according to Manion.

“Close to half of our patients go to UVM Medical Center for some care,” Manion said. “This opens up channels of communication that … will help our patients in the long run.”

And that communication will be further enhanced when PMC joins UVMHN’s electronic medical records system that will allow patient records to flow seamlessly between member practices and hospitals, Manion noted.

“That will be such a win for patients,” he said.

million, project costs are now at (Continued from Page 1A) thus would have “little or no impact $165 million, according to Parent. on the park and its existing uses, Construction began in June 2014. A both during and after construction.” spur that would extend the pipeline to The 85.5-acre Geprags Park was International Paper in Ticonderoga, donated to the town of Hinesburg N.Y., was proposed, but the company exclusively for use as a “public park backed out of the project in 2016. or school or for public recreational Lawsuits in 2015 resulted in Vermont or educational purposes.” The PSB’s Gas having to replace its contractor condemnation easement includes a to finish the project. The construction section of the park designated as a route required easements across 164 Class II Wetland and, according to properties, which generated ongoing Dumont’s brief, gives Vermont Gas opposition. the right “to excavate a new trench While the company initially through the park if ... (horizontal championed natural gas as a directional drilling) “greener” fossil is not ‘feasible’ Over the past year fuel, climate activist for future repairs organizations such alone, protesters or replacements, as Rising Tide, the right to spray chained themselves Just Power, Hands herbicides along the to heavy machines Across the Valley, easement, and the used to lay Rutland Area right to ‘traverse the pipeline in Climate Coalition, the park with heavy Middlebury and Toxics Action Center equipment’ in certain and 350VT have Monkton and circumstances.” countered that the D u m o n t ’ s stood in the way natural gas it would November appeal of earthmoving deliver is no better a u t o m a t i c a l l y machines working for the environment included a stay on on the pipeline in than fuel oil when construction.

The one takes into New Haven.

Supreme Court lifted account the way the that stay Dec. 9, and gas is fracked from construction resumed in January, with land in western Canada and the way Vermont Gas posting a $1 million some gas leaks from the pipeline. bond to guarantee that it would Plus, they said, spending on natural dismantle the Geprags section of pipe gas infrastructure only delayed and do whatever remediation would installation of renewable energy be necessary should the Supreme infrastructure.

Court reverse the PSB’s decision.

Opponents also worried that For now, Vermont Gas is in there was not adequate planning for prepping the line to deliver product. removing the pipe at the end of its Spokesperson Parent explained that life and complained that the project “gas up” is the final step in “cleaning would benefit the foreign owners of the pipes and preparing to put the gas Vermont Gas. through.”

Over the past year alone, protesters CONTROVERSIAL PROJECT chained themselves to heavy The pipeline has faced external and machines used to lay the pipeline in internal challenges at almost every Middlebury and Monkton and stood step since the idea was announced in the way of earthmoving machines in 2012 and the project won its working on the pipeline in New Certificate of Public Good from the Haven.

PSB in December 2013.

The Public Service Board Originally estimated at $70 generated a considerable outcry

last summer when it attempted to close hearings to the public and was overruled by a federal judge.

Still outstanding is a Conservation Law Foundation case against the project, and in February new Public Service Commissioner June Tierney hosted a forum to get public feedback on the project.

GEPRAGS RULING Vermont Gas’s Parent looks for the Supreme Court to settle the legal questions around the pipeline.

“Today’s hearing was a very important step in the process of resolving this case,” she said. “And we are really looking forward to the Supreme Court’s decision so we can have this resolved.

“We will begin serving customers in the next week.”

For Dumont, Tuesday’s arguments before the Supreme Court concerned both Geprags Park and larger issues around public land.

In essence, Dumont’s brief argued that “property dedicated to a prior public use cannot be condemned for a new public use without specific legislative authority.” In other words, the PSB had no authority to rule as it did. Such a condemnation easement, Dumont contends, can only legally be granted by the Vermont Legislature.

“Mrs. Geprags gave the land to the town for purposes of public education and public recreation,” Dumont said on Tuesday. “That is not consistent with this purpose. So under the law of Vermont the general grant of eminent domain that every utility has does not suffice because the land is already dedicated to public use. Vermont Gas needed to go back to the Legislature and say, ‘Do we have the authority to take this particular land?’ They haven’t done that.”

What that means, said Dumont, is that it isn’t just Geprags Park that’s at stake but “more generally all public lands because if this is OK, then the floodgates are open.”

Market Perspective Q1 2017

Stocks Advance Amid Policy Uncertainty

The stock market’s love affair with the Republican agenda endured the rocky start to the Trump presidency, and finished up 5% for the first quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial average breached two milestones – crossing 20,000 for the first time ever on January 25, then topping 21,000 on March 1. In surging to that record close, the market looked past a number of events that most Americans found unsettling – massive protests against the new President, the courts’ rejection of his unpopular travel ban, the resignation of the National Security Adviser under suspicions of colluding with the Russians in the 2016 election, and the recusal of the Attorney General a day later from that investigation. Whew!

A look at the chart for the quarter, however, reveals that stock market momentum stalled in March as questions arose about Republicans’ ability to push through their policy agenda. Doubts stem from two underlying issues. First, the President’s ability to use the power of the bully pulpit now seems compromised, by suspicions about his involvement with the Russians in the hacking of the 2016 campaign, by his own erratic behavior – most notably accusing his predecessor, without any evidence, of wiretapping his Manhattan apartment and most of all, by his record low approval ratings.

The second set of doubt stems from Republicans’ inability to push through repeal and replacement of Obamacare, their single biggest campaign issue of the past seven years.

The debate highlighted the fact we wrote about last quarter, that Republicans have nearly as many disagreements amongst themselves as they do with Democrats. It is entirely possible that the market can shrug off an ineffective Trump presidency. But we have a harder time seeing how U.S. stock prices can maintain current levels without legislative successes, especially on tax reform. The S&P 500 trades at nearly 22 times trailing 12-month earnings, a premium of about 20% to the long-term average multiple.

While lower corporate and investment taxes would help justify current valuation, a repeat of the healthcare debacle would almost certainly suck the air of this market.

This is not to suggest that all of the stock market’s recent gains should be attributed to policy. For one, corporate profits are rebounding due to steadying oil prices and related investment.

Global economic data has also been improving, especially in Europe and China. In fact, overseas markets outperformed the U.S in Q1, with stocks in Europe and Asia advancing 8%. There are still risks. In Europe, upcoming elections in France, Germany and Italy threaten to undermine commitment to the Euro currency at the same time that Britain begins its negotiations to leave the EU. In China, the banking system looks increasingly shaky, with a rise in bad loans reminiscent of Japan in the early 90’s and the U.S. before the financial crisis. But in most overseas markets, economic fundamentals are clearly improving and stocks are not as expensive (see chart), so the downside risks may be lower.

In this country, there has been a somewhat curious divergence between “hard” and “soft” economic data since the election. On the one hand, consumer, business, and investor surveys (the soft data) indicate the highest levels of bullishness since the dot com era. On the other hand, hard data on consumer spending and business investment indicate barely any improvement at all. This suggests that the surveys of sentiment reflect optimism more than confidence. Investor Sir John Templeton famously said that “bull markets are born in pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” That this bull market has lasted eight years probably reflects the fact that most of it has been spent in pessimism and skepticism.

There’s little doubt that dysfunction in Washington contributed to such persistent negativity. Now that Washington is back in the hands of a single party, the public expects effective governance. But continued dysfunction could destroy this optimism and kill the bull market long before it ever gets to euphoria. For Templeton, that would be an unnatural end; for investors, an unfortunate one.

Don Devost and Matt Wootten are investment advisors and principals of Addison Advisors LLC in Middlebury. This is a paid column supplied by Addison Advisors to help educate readers on current market trends.

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Working on ‘Working’

THE MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY Players are putting together their spring show.

“Working” is a musical take on Studs Terkel’s classic book by the same name. The show will run April 27 through May 7 at the Town Hall Theater.

Rehearsing on the THT stage Monday night were, top row left to right, Noah Bessette; Hilary Delisle, Kendra Gratton and Rebecca Kneale Gould; and Mike Lynch. Middle row, left to right: Gratton and Theo Wells-Spackman; Valerie Smith-Hastings, Delisle, Amanda Schmitter, David Kuntz and Jaime Parmelee; and Kaitlin Rice. Bottom, left to right: Asa Baker-Rouse and Luke Bleich; and Lynch and Gould.

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Climate the nation’s maple syrup. up the vessels. That will also reduce (Continued from Page 1A) sap flow to the point where it’s no maple syrup production has been UNPREDICTABLE Right now, warmer temperatures longer possible to collect sap.” growing steadily since the late Concerns about microbial buildup 1990s. More and more people are might seem like a benefit to getting into it, and people are getting sugarmakers, but as climate change can be mitigated with the use of a into it at a larger scale. The product continues to push unpredictable vacuum system — a machine that is being sold not just regionally, but weather, strong storms and warming literally sucks sap from the trees trends, producing maple syrup may through plastic tubing. As long globally now. as the vacuum is activated and “If anything were to impact the become more difficult.

“All farmers have pulling for the entire duration of ability to produce some level of concern the sugaring season, it will prevent syrup, that could hurt about weather and microbes from piling up. more businesses that “Maple is part climate,” Isselhardt Vacuum tubing also protects are devoted to maple of Vermont’s “If you’re against changes in freeze-thaw production. There’s identity. It’s a lot said. growing a crop that periods. Sap runs most plentifully no doubt about that.” bigger than just takes all summer to during 45-degree days that follow But what happens mature, as long as 20-degree nights. Without the when Vermont’s most some hundreds there isn’t anything physical pressure caused by iconic industry relies of millions of on tiny fluctuations dollars. It’s part — a weather event dramatic temperature swings, sap — that’s completely won’t gush in high quantities from in temperature — devastating, you can the trees — unless it’s triggered by fluctuations that of the caché of usually ride out the a vacuum. might become less the state, the variability.

So a warming climate could hurt predictable in the image of the “Sugaring happens those who gather sap by buckets foreseeable future? state, the values at a very compressed more than those using tubing and a Most Vermonters period of time, four vacuum system. know the routine: and tradition of to six weeks, by and “You still need to have some maple sap begins to the state.” flow during spring’s — Sugarmaker large. There comes a freezing and thawing to initiate that delicate balance of Dave Folino point at which, when flow, but (with a vacuum system) you start losing days you could have many, many days below-freezing nights, for one reason or without a freeze,” Isselhardt said. when water is drawn “Bucket producers won’t collect up into the stem of maple trees, another, they’re not coming back.”

Looking to the future, one any sap, but the vacuum will still charging it with sugar and potential energy, and above-freezing days, concern, Isselhardt says, is that maintain some yield.” when trees thaw and sap is released early temperature spikes will hinder BUGS ON TREES Pests are another concern. The by gravity. Historically, producers the total crop yield. The reason have come to expect the process to for this is twofold. First, high forest tent caterpillar, a native begin around Town Meeting Day — temperatures signal sugar maples species in Vermont, broke out by the millions in June of the first week of March. In the past to begin developing buds, taking energy 2016, destroying the decade at least, that has changed.

“If anything from sap leaves of sugar maples This year some commercial away Once were to impact in northwestern producers began tapping in early production.

Vermont. Landscapes January, and aside from a mostly- buds begin to develop, the ability to that should have been frozen March, temperatures have the syrup produces produce syrup, vibrant and green peaked and plummeted enough to an undesirable taste, that could hurt were a sickly brown keep sap flowing. Given the longer forcing producers to season, it seems that Vermont’s close up shop for the more businesses — caterpillars left climate is teetering on a sugaring season. that are devoted nothing but the veins Second, sugar to maple of the leaves in their sweet spot. wake.

“We made syrup in January this maples heal wounds quickly in production.

Right now, year,” said Tom Gadhue, owner of more Solar Sweet Maple Farm, which has warmer temperatures, There’s no doubt outbreaks of forest tent caterpillar occur 23,300 taps in South Lincoln. “We which could cause about that.” tap holes to restrict have not done that before.”

— Mark Isselhardt, every 15 to 20 years, but Isselhardt says The Folinos started tapping the or close earlier in the UVM Extension these outbreaks third week of January, and saw sap season.

“There’s a period might become more running in February. “That’s the earliest we’ve ever boiled,” Dave of time at which a tap hole can be common with warmer temperatures. viable,” Isselhardt said. “The tree “Forest tent caterpillar is a Folino said.

Last year’s record-high actually devotes energy to walling defoliator, so they chew on the temperatures, which meteorologists off the tissue to prevent infection. leaves, and obviously the leaves say was fueled by the El Niño When it’s cold out, that wound are what give the tree its capacity weather pattern in the Pacific response isn’t quite as rapid. Once to produce food,” Isselhardt Ocean, kept the sap running all it starts to get warmer, you get trees’ said. “If you have defoliations spring long and helped Vermont wound response, plus you get things happening more frequently, it could produce a record amount of maple — microbes — growing in the tap put the trees’ overall storage of syrup. Producers milked a total hole. There’s a nice sugary liquid carbohydrates in a negative trend, of 3.78 million gallons from the in there, and things will multiply and it could hurt the overall health state’s maple trees, up 27 percent quickly. Some of that microbial and vigor of individuals.”

And it’s not just native species from 2015’s 2.98 million gallons, to growth will start to develop a churn out a total of 47.3 percent of gummy material, which will plug that cause concern; warmer weather

DAVE FOLINO, SHOWN working in his Huntington sugarhouse this week, is already seeing the effects of climate change, including high winds that damage trees and huge summer downpours that erode land and wash out roads. He also is anxious about pest infestations harming his sugarbush.

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could mean more species of pests new to Vermont.

The Asian Longhorned Beetle, native to China and the Korean Peninsula, favors sugar maples and has no native predators to keep it in check. While the beetle has not yet infested Vermont, it has been found in several areas of New York.

“They can do quite a bit of damage,” Isselhardt said. “The larvae will feed throughout the stem and cause big issues, and eventually kill or damage the tree. They’re also hard to detect, for the most part, so they could go undetected for a long period of time, and the population could grow.”

Sugarmakers can ward off damage from pests by maintaining a healthy — and diverse — sugarbush. According to a study by the Northeastern States Research Cooperative, sugarbushes with 25 percent non-maple species were significantly less likely to be damaged by insect and disease pests.

Folino, who saw his sugarbush recover from a forest tent caterpillar

infestation a decade ago, said an attack by Asian Longhorn Beetles would be a bigger threat.

“That kind of thing, if it happens, would be completely devastating, and you can’t control it by leaving a few other species in your woods,” he said.

‘GOLDILOCKS’ TREE Though sugar maples are resilient trees, Isselhardt notes that preparing them for stress — from pests, temperature increases or extreme weather events — could improve long-term health.

“I think, what it comes down to, is that the forest is a competition,” he said. “They’re competing for light, competing for water, competing for nutrients. Sugar maple is really well adapted to our climate right here. If that changes, it may not be as well adapted. It has a very narrow range of site characteristics, it likes it a little bit wet, but not too wet — it’s sometimes called a ‘Goldilocks’ tree for that reason. So it could be that sugar maple finds itself in a climate that it can’t compete in quite as well compared to other

species.”

Isselhardt works full-time researching and developing resources to create profitable and sustainable sugaring operations in Vermont. He encourages those with questions, concerns or suggestions to attend meetings and reach out to Extension staff.

Looking to the future, Folino acknowledges that a wounded maple industry could put a hole in Vermont’s identity.

“There’s the economic impact,” Folino said. “Increasingly in Vermont, with low dairy prices, maple has been one area where you could go and be profitable.

“But more important is the tradition within Vermont for maple,” he added, pointing to the fact that the U.S. Mint put a sugar maple on the back of the quarter representing Vermont. “That’s part of Vermont’s identity. It’s a lot bigger than just some hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s part of the cache of the state, the image of the state, the values and tradition of the state.”

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(Continued from Page 1A) food and preparing it and feeding people.”

That love will be reflected in the farm’s new name: Full Belly Farm.

The Vermont Land Trust was offering the lease through its Farm Access Program. With 12 years of diverse farming experience between them, the Parks’ detailed vision for the farm brought their proposal to the top of a statewide competitive selection process.

“They were the best fit for this property,” said the land trust’s Allen Karnatz. “They had lots of good experience growing berries and vegetables so they could really hit the ground running. And they seemed to be asking all the right questions about irrigation and so forth. Their proposal also seemed to be pretty financially sound that they could qualify for financing through USDA young farmer loans.

“It’s kind of the whole package.”

The lease marks a step in a multiphase process whereby the land trust will acquire the farm, while the Parks continue to lease and operate it.

Eventually the Parks will purchase the farm from the land trust, which will retain the development rights.

The complete transfer of farm ownership will take place over the next year, said Karnatz.

“We’re excited about conserving the farm and helping Stephen and Sarah become the owners,” said Karnatz. “There are still some moving parts, such as obtaining funding for purchasing the development rights.

Later this year we hope to secure grants through the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board and USDANRCS. We also hope the town of Monkton will offer support through their town conservation fund; and if necessary, we might organize a local fundraising campaign. It’s a lot of work but keeping the land in farming and having an ambitious, experienced couple take it over is a great outcome.“ MAKING A PROPOSAL The Parks learned about the opportunity to take over the farm just after they’d returned from their honeymoon last fall.

“I showed it to Stephen and I wasn’t really sure why I was feeling like we should go for it because it was such a 180,” Sarah Park said of the unusual opportunity.

Most recently they had been running the Lick Skillet food truck, selling Mexican food and Southern barbeque around the state. Their plan had been to use the food truck as a value-added way of transitioning to farming over time, using their own produce.

The chance to lease the Monkton farm, said Sarah, presented “a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

The Parks visited the farm during a land trust open house and soon set to work on their proposal for the land trust. The couple had investigated purchasing a Bristol berry farm a year earlier, so they’d already begun to consider their farm business. They sought input and feedback through the Vermont Small Business Development Center and the Vermont Farm Viability Program. They also spent time with farm owner Norma Norris to gain an in-depth understanding of what made the farm tick.

“She was so wonderful, so helpful through this whole interview process, patient with all of our questions, too,” said Sarah Park. “We have a lot of questions.”

In late January, the couple learned that they had won the right to lease and eventually own the farm.

“It was just incredibly exciting,” said Stephen Park. “I’d spent almost 10 years working on farms and hoping that some day I’d be able to own my own land and be able to farm myself. But I kind of started doing the woodworking (Park is also a trained cabinetmaker) because I didn’t see a way of getting the financing together, especially if you’re starting from scratch. So the opportunity to take this on was kind of a dream come true in a lot of ways. It’s what I’ve been wanting to do my whole adult life.”

MEET THE FARMERS Stephen Park grew up in Kentucky just one generation off the farm.

Before Park was born, his dad got out of hog and tobacco farming and retrained as an engineer.

Out of high school, Park said he tried college for one semester and soon realized “I couldn’t sit inside that much.”

Instead, he took an internship on an organic farm.

“That was it. I loved it,” he said.

“And the next season, I found a job out in Oregon, and I worked there for eight years.”

Despite his professional experience and love of farming, Park felt it was prudent to have an alternate way to make a living, so he took classes at the Vermont Woodworking School in Cambridge.

Sarah and Stephen met when he came to do some carpentry work at

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STEPHEN AND SARAH Park won a competitive process to lease the Davis Road berry farm in Monkton. On track to eventually own the property, they plan to rename it Full Belly Farm.

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Starksboro’s Lewis Creek Farm, where Sarah (then Plante) was working.

“We just hit it off,” Sarah said.

Sarah grew up “at the end of a dirt road in Moretown.” She attended Johnson State College but was at a loss, she said, for what she wanted to do.

“I had a friend who worked up at a dairy farm in Johnson, and I noticed he was happy,” she said.

“That got me thinking that nothing could make you as happy as being outside and growing food. I think it’s a great way to participate in your community.”

Soon thereafter, she transferred to the University of Vermont, where she studied agriculture and food systems.

Once out of college she began working at Lewis Creek Farm.

Fate intervened and now Sarah and her husband, Stephen, are hard at work on Full Belly Farm.

FAMILIAR AND NEW The soon-to-be rechristened Full Belly Farm will continue to grow Norris Berry Farm signature crops: strawberries (including pick your own), raspberries, blueberries, currants and a full complement of veggies and some melons.

“There’s not a whole lot changing this year,” said Stephen.

Year to year, though, the Parks plan to be making some changes as they see where the market is going and see which varietals do best.

Over the next year, they plan to add asparagus, which they believe will complement their growing season nicely, coming in before the

all-important strawberries. They plan to gradually transition the farm to organic. And they hope to eventually add livestock, both to supply farmraised meat and to supply the manure to generate the mounds of compost needed to keep all those fruits and veggies growing.

And Lick Skillet still fits into the business plan.

This summer they have a friend lined up to operate their food truck on site at the farm on busy pick-your-own days.

“We really want to honor what Norma’s built here,” said Stephen.

“That’s a big part of our plan — to honor and continue with our own touch.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is reached at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

Some Addison County youths were among those lauded at the annual State 4-H Horse Hippology Contest held on April 2 at the Windmill Stables in St. Albans and at Missisquoi Valley Union High School in Swanton. The event attracted 62 participants from 10 counties. The 4-H’ers competed by age group with different questions and skills tests for each group.

Kimberly Gibson of Bristol finished among the top 10 scorers in the competition. Shyanne Wedge of Shoreham was a top scorer in the “novice senior division” (ages 1418). Lauren Hodsden of Bridport served as a teen assistant for the event. The competition tests participants’ ability to place horses in conformation and performance classes. The 4-H’ers responded to questions and performed tasks relating to tack and equipment, anatomy, confirmation, feeds and nutrition, breeds and horse care, among other topics.

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At their annual meeting earlier this winter, the Vermont Wood Manufacturers Association bestowed its 2016 Emerging Woodworker of the Year award on John Monks of Vermont Tree Goods in Bristol. Vermont Tree Goods mills planks and creates furniture from recycled heirloom trees that have reached the end of their growing years. Monks began to collect unwanted large diameter logs to produce lumber for his furniture. He experimented with chainsaws to learn how to mill the largest of these trees. After much trial and many splinters, he designed the unique sawmill that allows his company to transform the largest trees into exquisite furniture.

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The Pi Day blizzard of 2017, an ode

The last weekend in March I went cross-country skiing at Rikert Nordic Center for what I thought at the time was almost certainly the final time of the 2016-17 winter. A month or so earlier I had gone skiing and feared it was my final ski of the winter. But then came the Pi Day Blizzard of 2017 — the glorious, delightful and beautiful Pi Day Blizzard, also known as Category 3 Winter Storm Stella.

Before I continue in praise of Stella, and of the resulting conditions at Rikert, let me begin with condolences. My son Mark was let out of work early on March 14 because of the blizzard and the resulting road conditions. Somehow a storm predicted at one point to drop a half-foot of snow in the Champlain Valley kept getting upgraded, and eventually it dropped closer to two and a half feet. It became one of the largest blizzards in Vermont’s recorded history. A winter “superstorm” some called it. On his drive home, Mark saw a landscape littered with cars and trucks that had slid off Route 7. If one of those was yours, I feel badly for you. Many businesses were also closed, which I’m sure in rural Vermont can be an economic blow to business owners. If you are one of those, I’m also sorry. I recognize you won’t appreciate an Ode to Stella.

I also apologize to readers of this column who like outdoor sports in general but don’t care much about fishing, and who endured columns about fishing in the middle of the winter because … well, because by late February there wasn’t any snow on the ground anymore and my cross-country ski season had seemingly come to a disappointing end.

In fact, a few weeks earlier my old ski boots had started falling apart. A small crack opened up on the sole of (See Dickerson, Page 3B)

ScoreBOARD SCOREBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls Lacrosse 4/5 MUHS at Burr & Burton....................Late Baseball 4/5 OV at Windsor........................Postponed COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 4/1 Amherst vs. Midd............................20-11 4/5 Hamilton at Midd...............................Late Women’s Lacrosse 4/1 Midd. vs. Amherst.............................13-3 4/5 Midd. at Hamilton..............................Late Softball 4/4 Midd. at Union (2)...................Postponed 4/5 Midd. at Castleton (2).......................Late Baseball 3/31 Williams vs. Midd............................18-5 4/1 Williams vs. Midd................................9-8 4/1 Williams vs. Midd..............................10-9

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls Lacrosse 4/6 VUHS at Colchester.................4:30 p.m.

4/8 Woodstock at MUHS (Kohn).......11 a.m.

4/10 Rutland at MUHS....................4:30 p.m.

4/14 MUHS at CVU........................4:30 p.m.

4/15 MUHS at Rice............................11 a.m.

4/17 VUHS at St. Johnsbury...........4:30 p.m.

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Men’s tennis earns wins vs. top foes AUSTIN, Texas — The Middlebury College men’s tennis team on Saturday posted its second straight win over a top-ranked NCAA Division III foe, 6-3 over No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. That result followed a 6-3 win over No. 1 Emory by the same score on Friday.

The Panthers, who were ranked No. 4 in the March 30 poll, concluded their spring trip to the Lone Star state with an 11-1 record, and their only loss came to a D-II school. Middlebury returns to action on Saturday and Sunday with home NESCAC matches vs. Williams and Tufts, respectively.

(See Tennis, Page 3B)

Sports BRIEFS PANTHER JUNIOR HOLLIS Perticone charges toward the Amherst goal Saturday on Kohn Field. Perticone scored a goal in the 13-3 Middlebury win.

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Women’s lax battles top-ranked teams Challenging stretch includes big wins

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team finished an eight-day stretch of four games vs. ranked teams on Saturday, when the Panthers shut down visiting Amherst, 13-3.

Saturday’s result meant a 2-2 record in that gauntlet and a 7-2 record overall, 4-1 in NESCAC. The losses — both in overtime, 11-10 at No. 8 Bowdoin on March 25 and 9-8 at No. 1 Franklin and Marshall on March 29 — cost the defending D-III champion Panthers their previous No. 1 ranking, as they landed at No. 4 in this Monday’s poll. Also in that run the Panthers rallied for a 6-4 victory at No. 2 The College of New Jersey on March 27.

Despite the overall positive results, Coach Kate Livesay said her team remains a work in progress — understandably after seven seniors who started in the 2016 NCAA final graduated.

In Saturday’s game vs. then No. 19 Amherst, the teams combined for 47 turnovers, 23 by the Panthers. Middlebury failed to clear its own end six times overall, and only nine of 14 clears were successful in the first half.

Livesay afterward said the mes(See Panthers, Page 3B)

PANTHER SOPHOMORE GOALIE Kate Furber made 13 saves in Middlebury’s 13-3 win over Amherst Saturday afternoon.

AMHERST, Mass. — Host Amherst took an 8-2 lead after the first quarter on the way to a 20-11 victory over the Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team on Saturday. Amherst, ranked No. 12 in NCAA Division III last week, improved to 7-2, 3-1 in NESCAC play.

The Panthers dropped to 3-6, 1-4 in league action. They were hoping to bounce back at Hamilton on

Wednesday after the deadline for the sports section and will visit Bates on Saturday; both of those are NESCAC contests.

Henry Riehl gave the Panthers a short-lived 1-0 lead this past Saturday, but the Purple & White scored the game’s next six goals and never looked back. Amherst led at the half, 10-5. The teams exchanged goals until midway through the third peri-

Area players are girls’ hoop stars

ADDISON COUNTY — Thirteen local high school girls’ basketball players earned postseason recognition this winter.

Middlebury Union junior Keagan Dunbar was named the Lake Division Co-Player of the Year along with Colchester’s Gabby Gosselin, and Mount Abraham Union junior Emma Carter joined them as a Lake Division First-Team All-Star.

Otter Valley Union junior Gabriela Poalino earned First-Team Marble Valley League B Division recognition, while OV senior Courtney Bushey earned a Second Team nod.

Three players earned Lake Second Team honors: MUHS senior Payton Buxton, Vergennes Union senior Xzavia Berry, and Mount Abe junior Emma LaRose.

In addition, OV senior Sophia Bloomer, Buxton and Berry were picked to play on the Division I and II squad in the annual North-South Classic at Windsor High School.

There, Buxton won the D-I and II three-point shooting contest.

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od, when with the tally at 12-7 Amherst went on an 8-1 run spanning the third and fourth periods to put the game out of reach.

Jack Norton led Amherst with eight goals, and Dylan Finazzo won 25 of 32 faceoffs and scooped 16 groundballs. Amherst goalie Cody Tranbarger made 18 saves, and Chad Simon stopped one shot Henry Riehl struck for six goals

for Middlebury, and five players had a goal apiece. Goalie Will Ernst made 12 stops for Middlebury, and also led the team in ground balls with seven. Charles Midgley played 3:53 and made one save.

Amherst had edges of 65-43 in shots at goal and 53-37 in ground balls. Middlebury went 17 for 26 in clears, but also forced 26 Amherst turnovers.

MIDDLEBURY — Unsurprisingly, the members of the Division II championship Middlebury Union High School boys’ and girls’ Nordic skiing teams were well represented on the D-II all-state teams. Both teams won D-II championships this winter.

Earning all-state nods from the girls’ team were Ursula Volz, Malia Hodges, Amelia Ingersoll, Isabel Rosenberg and Caroline Kimble.

Kate Oster and Katherine Koehler received honorable mention.

Earning all-state nods from the boys’ team were Sam Hodges, Tom Hussey and Cade Christner, while Harlow Punderson earned honorable mention.

Recognition was determined by combining times from the two halves of the state meet, the classic and freestyle events. The skiers with the top 10 best combined times earned allstate status, while the skiers with the next five best combined times earned honorable mention.

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MEMBERS AND COACHES of the Middlebury Area Wrestling Association gather at their April 1 tournament at MUMS. The club crowned nine individual champions.

Young Middlebury-area wrestlers earn tournament victory MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Area Wrestling Association youth team on Saturday hosted nine other clubs for its first home tournament in several years at Middlebury Union Middle School and

came away with a team title as many MAWA wrestlers earned individual firstplace finishes.

First-place winners were Avery Carl, Parker Carl, Tucker Wright, Colton

Odell, Colton Brinkmanship, Heath Odell, Kaden Wright, Phoenix Popp and Nick Sheldrick.

Cyrus Odell and Camdon Thieme earned second-place finishes, while Mattix Popp,

Women’s tennis ends trip with triumph CLAREMONT, Calif. — The Middlebury College women’s tennis team concluded its spring break trip on Saturday with a 9-0 win over Gustavus Adolphus. The 4-3 Panthers went 2-3 on the trip, dropping two 5-4 matches to NCAA Division II

opponents and an 8-1 match to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the No. 2 team in NCAA D-III. The Panthers, ranked No. 9 last week in D-III, will host NESCAC foes Williams and Tufts this weekend.

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PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Middlebury College baseball team this past weekend dropped all three games of its opening NESCAC West Series to Williams as the Panthers wrapped up their spring break trip to Arizona.

On Saturday, Williams (8-2) swept a doubleheader, 9-8 and 10-9, a day after the Ephs rolled to an 18-5 series-opening triumph. The Panthers are 3-8 and will visit Amherst for three games this Friday and Saturday, weather permitting.

In the series finale on this past Saturday the Panthers took a 4-2 lead in the third. After the Ephs took an early 2-0 lead, Raj Palekar hit a base-clearing double in the third and later scored on an error.

But the Ephs scored six runs in the bottom of the third on seven hits to make it 7-4, and retained a slim lead

the rest of the way despite a pair of RBI hits by Jason Lock, who also scored twice. Palekar also contributed another RBI hit. Colby Morris (12) allowed seven earned runs in 5.1 innings and took the loss.

Sean Hager (2-0) earned the win, going 5.2 innings and striking out seven.

In the second game, the Panthers took a 4-0 lead.

Hits by Ryan Rizzo and Sam Graf produced a run in the first, and Brooks Carroll launched a three-run homer in the second.

Williams made it 4-2 with single runs in the second and third innings and took a 6-4 lead a four-run fourth.

Palekar’s three-run homer gave Middlebury back the lead, and a Graf sacrifice fly in the sixth made it 8-6.

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Han poked three hits, and Graf drove in two runs with two hits. Andrew Martinson (0-1) took the loss in relief, while Colin Waters got the starting nod, allowing four earned runs in 3.2 innings.

Kyle Dean (1-1) picked up the win in relief for Williams, tossing the final four innings and allowing only one earned run.

On Friday the Ephs shrugged off the Panthers’ two-run first inning to lead by 7-2 after four on the way to the 18-5 final.

Rizzo poked three hits and scored twice, while Graf stroked two hits and drove in three runs. Johnny Read and Andrew Hennings also chipped in two hits each. Robert Erickson (02) got the start for Middlebury and suffered the loss, giving up seven runs (three earned) on four hits in four innings.

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doubles team of Alexandra Fields and Maddi Stow posted an 8-1 victory over Briana Hartmann and Cal Carlson. Next to finish were the No. 1 Panther team of Kaysee Orozco and Catherine Blazye, who edged Michaela Schulz and Ally Baker, 8-6.

The No. 3 pair of Molly Paradies and Skylar Schossberger claimed a 9-7 victory over Katie Aney and Lilly Hartman.

In singles, the Panthers dropped a combined 16 games during the six matches. Christina Puccinelli breezed

by Baker at No. 2 (6-0, 6-0), while Fields followed suit with a 6-0, 6-0 victory in the top spot over Schulz.

Katherine Hughes earned the match-clinching point at No. 6 with a 6-2, 6-1 win against Hartman, while Heather Boehm earned a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 3 against Hartmann.

Schossberger was a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Carlson at No. 4, while Paradies took a 6-4, 6-2 triumph against Aney in the fifth flight.

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Boys’ Lacrosse 4/6 U-32 at Mt. Abe.......................Postponed 4/7 Woodstock at MUHS at College Field..... .......................................................5:30 p.m.

4/10 OV at Mt. Abe..............................4 p.m.

4/11 Essex at MUHS...........................4 p.m.

4/12 Montpelier at Mt. Abe...................4 p.m.

4/14 MUHS at Rutland.........................4 p.m.

4/19 OV at Randolph...........................4 p.m.

Softball 4/10 OV at Leland & Gray..............4:30 p.m.

4/15 MUHS at Fair Haven.................11 a.m.

4/18 St. J at VUHS.........................4:30 p.m.

4/18 Mt. Mansfield at Mt. Abe.........4:30 p.m.

4/18 Essex at MUHS......................4:30 p.m.

Baseball 4/7 Burr & Burton at OV..................4:30 p.m.

4/10 OV at Mill River.......................4:30 p.m.

4/13 MUHS at Rutland....................4:30 p.m.

4/18 St. J at VUHS.........................4:30 p.m.

4/18 Mt. Mansfield at Mt. Abe.........4:30 p.m.

4/18 Essex at MUHS......................4:30 p.m.

COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 4/8 Midd. at Bates................................1 p.m.

4/12 Springfield at Midd.......................5 p.m.

4/15 Trinity at Midd. ............................2 p.m.

Women’s Lacrosse 4/8 Bates at Midd.................................. Noon 4/15 Midd. at Trinity.............................2 p.m.

Softball 4/7 Amherst at Midd.............................5 p.m.

4/8 Amherst at Midd. (2)....................... Noon 4/12 St. Lawrence at Midd. (2).......3:30 p.m.

4/14 Midd. at Hamilton.........................5 p.m.

4/15 Midd. at Hamilton (2).................... Noon Baseball 4/7 Midd. at Amherst............................4 p.m.

4/8 Midd. at Amherst (2) ...................... Noon 4/11 Plattsburgh at Midd.................3:30 p.m.

4/14 Hamilton at Midd..........................4 p.m.

4/15 Hamilton at Midd. (2).................... Noon Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

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Dickerson Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) both boots. It grew to a large split going all the way across my boot. When I skied, snow and water squished into my feet from the bottom. I committed myself to eking out one last half a season with them. A round of Shoe Goo didn’t save them. I tried Duct Tape.

Not even that cure-all worked. I was a hair’s breadth from giving up on the season and throwing my boots in the trash to wait for a 2017-18 reboot.

And then came Stella. So here is my restitution. Just days from opening day of trout season and I’m writing about skiing.

Unfortunately, my wife and favorite ski partner, Deborah, was out of town.

Early in the afternoon on Wednesday, when the blizzard had petered out, she boarded an airplane bound for Nashville to help care for a niece who had just given birth. Fortunately, my son Peter was out on break from college for the week. Within 24 hours of the end of the snowfall, we grabbed our skis and hit the trails.

Conditions were lush. The evergreens were laden with snow.

Branches lay bent to the ground or even broken off from the weight. The woods were quiet and muffled. It felt like the lamppost scene in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.” Most importantly, the ground had the best covering of the winter. Peter and I did our first trek around the Brandy Brook trail — a loop that through much of this artificial-snow-dependent winter hadn’t had enough cover to ski. On this day the snow was so deep that if I skied too close to the edge of the trail my poles disappeared when I planted them.

The trip and beautiful conditions only whet my appetite. Most of our skiing earlier in the year had been confined to trails with snowmaking. Now every kilometer was open.

Looking ahead at the forecast, I saw warm weather and rain on their way in. March had turned the corner, and the wonderful conditions would not last. So two days later I returned with Peter and one of his friends for my final ski of the year, which also proved to be my longest. It was spring conditions at their best: T-shirt and sunglasses weather. We wound our way around much of the outer perimeter of the groomed portion of Rikert, including my first time around Gilmore and Crooked Brook. Conditions were still excellent most of the way, but a few patches of bare ground were already showing and the T-shirt weather was growing them quickly. The end was near.

A week after Stella visited and then departed, my wife returned from Tennessee. She was jealous of the skiing she had missed — jealous of the photos I’d posted to Facebook. But plenty of bare ground was showing, and rain and mixed precipitation were in the forecast. I feared I’d already taken my “final” ski of the year, I told her.

At Rikert, however, that mixed precipitation turned out to include three lovely inches of fresh snow. So Deborah and I hit the trail for another “final” ski of the year, arriving just as the snow was letting up. Those three inches proved just enough. The bare patches were covered, as was the crusty snow caused by the warm days. It was another nearly perfect morning of Nordic skiing.

So perfect that two days later, on a Sunday afternoon, we returned for my third final ski of the year. Light mist fell from the sky as we made our way out on our annual visit to the Frost Cabin. For the most part the ground still had good cover, but the snow was crusty and in a few places it was icy.

In other places the crust and ice gave way to bare ground. Despite the falling mist, we were glad we made the trip.

Returning from the third final ski outing of the year, I checked the forecast. A week of rain. I pulled off my boots and threw them in the trash.

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(Continued from Page 1B) sage to the Panthers was to keep plugging when things aren’t going smoothly.

“It was not perfect. That’s exactly what we told the team at the end. It was not perfect, but what we learned this week is we need to play with a lot of grit and a lot of desire,” she said. “And we can’t be frustrated when it’s not perfect. Because that’s just not who we are right now.”

Amherst (4-4, 1-3 NESCAC) also outshot the Panthers, 22-20, although that stat is misleading because the Panthers were getting better looks at the two Amherst goalies who combined for seven saves.

Meanwhile, Middlebury defenders Evie Keating, Jessie Yorke, Delaina Smith and Alex White often forced rushed shots, although goalie Kate Furber numbered several terrific stops among her 13 saves.

“She had a great game,” Livesay said. “I think the defense did a good job. I think they closed in on shooters and contested some shots, which I think helped Kate.”

The Panthers took charge on Saturday with four goals in the first 11:38.

Henley Hall, from Mary O’Connell, scored in the first minute; Emma McDonagh notched the first of her four goals on a free position; O’Connell dodged in; and Bea Eppler finished the run with a McDonagh assist.

Amherst’s Kate Wyeth picked up a turnover and went coast-to-coast at 14:03 to make it 4-1, and then for a long scoreless stretch the game was marked by physical play, tough defense, dropped balls and off-target passes.

The Panthers began again to penetrate the Amherst defense late in the half, and at 5:22 McDonagh drew a foul and whipped a free position high into the right side. With 12 seconds left in the half, she hit the lower left corner with another free position shot and it was 6-1.

The Panthers began to get more consistent looks against the Amherst defense in the second half. Hollis Perticone, who played a strong twoway game at midfield, drove to make it 8-1 3:41 into the half, and Eppler

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE Susanna Baker forces a turnover during Saturday’s game against Amherst.

PANTHER SENIOR BEA Eppler scored two goals during Saturday’s game against Amherst. Middlebury won the game, 13-3.

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drove, drew a foul, and tossed in a free position about a minute later.

Julia Crerend and Claire Cagnassola scored for Amherst, with McDonagh’s final strike in between, making it 9-3 with 18:50 left.

Panther freshman Elsa Hermanson down the stretch scored three times and set up Georgia Carroll as the Panthers pulled away.

Perticone scooped a game-high four ground balls, while Keating caused three turnovers. Kate Furber added five ground balls to her 13 saves.

Livesay was happy with the more assertive offensive effort in the second half; she said it took a while for her young team to adjust to Amherst’s shifting defenses.

“It took us a little while in the first half to adapt,” she said. “They were more ready in the second half and they executed more sharply.”

But more work is needed.

“We do have to fix our turnovers.

We’re going to take one win at a time, one game at a time, and just address things step by step,” Livesay said. “But this was a good win for us after the long spring break of three really tight games. We just needed to gain a little confidence today, and I think we did that.”

OVERTIME LOSS On the previous Wednesday, Franklin & Marshall’s Gabby Frank scored 45 seconds into overtime to lift her 8-1 team past Middlebury, 9-8.

That overtime game-winner thwarted a Panther rally from down by 5-2 at halftime; Middlebury outscored Franklin & Marshall by 6-3 after the break.

Franklin & Marshall took a 4-0 lead before Carroll netted a free position with 6:28 left in the half. Perticone made it 4-2 just 26 seconds later. Grace Norley’s second goal of the game at 0:15 gave F&M its 5-2 halftime lead.

Middlebury got three straight goals after the break: McDonagh buried a free position, Perticone scored unassisted, and O’Connell’s free position

at 23:12 made it 5-5.

The Diplomats responded with goals from Norley and Natalie Delinsky to go back in front 7-5, but a Hall free position made it 7-6 at 8:02. F&M regained its two-goal lead, but Perticone and O’Connell goals forced overtime.

But the Diplomats controlled the overtime draw, and Frank netted the game-winner on a feed from Maddie Hughes.

Furber made four saves and grabbed five ground balls. Diplomat goalie Danielle Harrington made five stops. F&M held edges of 21-19 in shots and 10-9 in draw controls.

On Wednesday, Livesay thought Panther defenders misjudged when to be aggressive on the perimeter, at the expense of leaving attackers open in the fan, a balance they struck better vs. Amherst.

She believes defense and goaltending are team strengths, and the rest of the components should catch up.

“We do feel really good about our defense. That’s where our veterans are, and Kate is just becoming a real tough goalie,” Livesay said. “As we groom our offense and limit those turnovers and really start to move the ball, I think we’ll become a really exciting offense.”

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police were informed that on March 27 someone had thrown a wine bottle through a window at the Tinker and Smithy Game Store, which had recently moved onto Main Street.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Assisted a North Forty Lane resident who said she had been insulted by a man on March 27.

• Investigated a report of a child who had been left unattended in a vehicle parked in front of the Hannaford Supermarket on March 27.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS with a medical call on North Pleasant Street on March 28.

• Conducted a welfare check on March 28 at the home of a Middlebury Union High School student who had not shown up for school for what school officials described as a “protracted period of time.” Police determined the students has been ill and would be returning to classes the next day.

• Warned a man for having an open container of alcohol on Maple Street on March 28.

• Assisted a person who noticed vandalism to their vehicle while parked off Court Street Extension on March 29. Police determined the vehicle was likely vandalized earlier in Vergennes.

• Disposed of medications received from the Marble Works Pharmacy on March 29.

• Were informed on March 29 that a drunken man had wandered into a Court Street resident’s apartment.

Police turned the man over to a sober person.

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• Investigated a complaint about a loud banging noise coming from a Court Street apartment on March 29.

Police said the noise was caused by a drunken person who had fallen inside the residence.

• Received a report about a homeless man refusing to leave the Porter Hospital lobby at around 9:15 p.m. on March 30. Police gave the man a ride to the Addison County Transit Resources bus stop.

• Helped a local farmer apprehend a loose cow in the Munger Street area on March 30.

• Destroyed a marijuana joint turned into the police department on March 30.

• Responded to a report of a homeless person hanging out in the recreation center off Creek Road after closing hours on March 31. Police said the man had left prior to their arrival.

• Received a report on April 2 of a local youth sustaining injuries, allegedly at the hand of his father.

Middlebury police relayed the information to investigators in New York state, where the incident is alleged to have occurred.

• Investigated a report of two men dressed in black walking near a Mead Lane home at around 5:30 a.m. on April 3. Police said they couldn’t find anyone fitting that description.

Tennis (Continued from Page 1B) Vs. Claremont, the Panther No. 1 team of Lubomir Cuba and William de Quant were first off the court with an 8-4 victory over Julian Gordy and Daniel Morkovine. The No. 3 CMS duo of Jake Berber and Alex Brenner evened the match at 1-1 with an 8-5 victory Allen Jackson and Timo van der Geest. The Panthers took a 2-1 lead headed to singles with an 8-6 triumph at No. 2 by Hamid Derbani and Kyle Schlanger over Nikolai Parodi and Jay Yeam.

In singles, Cuba put the Panthers

ahead, 3-1, with a 6-2, 6-3 victory at No. 1 vs. Parodi, but Brenner pulled the Stags back to within one via a 6-2, 6-3 triumph against Jackson at No. 6. At No. 5, van der Geest gave Middlebury a 4-2 advantage with a 6-3, 7-6 (0) win against Max Macey. Schlanger then clinched the match for the Panthers with a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 4 over Daniel Park.

Patrick Wildman tallied the Stags’ third point against Derbani at No. 3 when Derbani retired; Wildman led, 4-6, 6-3, 3-0. At No. 3, de Quant closed the match with a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1 win against Morkovine.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Ste‑ phen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEETINGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Discussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St. ARE YOU BOTHERED

BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

Babysitting available.

MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and dis‑ cussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understand‑ ing of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

NEW SUPPORT GROUP ‑ Grief Anonymous Meeting every Thursday @ 6:30 pm at Grace Baptist Church 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. First Meeting Thursday, December 1st, 2016 OA (OVEREATERS ANON‑ YMOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ days at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT.

WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) step meeting.

Tuesdays, 3 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at the Mountain Health Center in Bristol. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

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ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Vacancies for 2017-18 The schools of the ACSD seek outstanding applicants interested in the following positions: ACSD • Director of Technology (Full Time) -Responsible for the design, support, and integration of all technology resources with ACSD. • Music Teacher (Part Time) - Position is .4 FTE at Shoreham Elementary School and .3 FTE at Bridport Central School.

• Network Administrator (Full Time) - To Provide leadership in the design, maintenance, repair, security, and growth of the network infrastructure throughout ACSD. • Speech & Language Pathologist (2 Full Time) - One position at Middlebury Union High School while the other position will be serving two elementary schools.

• Technology Support Specialist - Anticipated (Full Time) Responsible for supporting staff, teachers and students in the use of technology.

Cornwall • Food Service Director/Cook (Part Time) - To work at a 78 student school with a strong Farm to School program. Must be committed to cooking healthy, locally-sourced, fresh food for our students using fresh, in season produce and knowledgeable about government food storage and safety regulations.

Responsible for the ordering of food, preparation, and serving of all meals as well as associated paperwork. The position requires a person to lift 50 lbs.

Middlebury Union Middle School • English/Language Arts Teacher (Full Time) - Qualified candidates must hold Middle Level or 7-12 licensure. Ideal candidates will have experience working in a standards referenced grading and reporting system, an understanding of differentiated instruction, and demonstrated ability to use student assessment data to inform instruction. Experience with middle level and willingness to collaborate are essential. Experience as a member of an interdisciplinary team desired.

Shoreham Community School • Food Manager and Cook (Part Time) - Individual to work at a 79 student school who is committed to cooking healthy, fresh food for our students. Must be familiar with using fresh, healthy produce; and knowledgeable about governmental food storage and safety regulations (Safe Serve certification is preferred, though not required). Responsible for the ordering of food, preparation, and serving of all meals. The position requires a person to lift 50 lbs.

• Math Support Specialist (FTE to be determined) - Position entails: helping to differentiate math instruction; developing and providing tiered math interventions; providing additional math instruction; and assessing and monitoring student process in math.

For further information about each position, please refer to the School Spring posting.

Apply on line at SchoolSpring.com or send a letter of interest, resume, three current reference letters, complete transcripts and evidence of licensure to: Dr. Peter Burrows, Superintendent of School Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be reviewed upon receipt or until the positions are filled.

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ONE BEDROOM APART‑ MENT $700 per month plus utilities included. $400 se‑ curity. No pets. No smoking.

Will not be available until April 1st. Located in Whit‑ ing. Contact Marie for an ap‑ pointment. 802‑623‑6082.

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOUSE on one of the six, now five remaining home‑sites in East Middle‑ bury’s Daisy Lane, a small established subdivision with village water, underground electric, cable and tele‑ phone to each lot. All sites are approved for simple in ground septic. Just down the street you’ll find a library, playground, tennis courts and the beautiful Waybury Inn and Pub. That’s not all, Daisy Lane is 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, two 18 hole golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore.

Telephone 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Ad‑ dison. Available storage space in my barn for sum‑ mer/winter storage. The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or run‑ ning water. The barn is also available for lease. The en‑ trance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

BUS MONITOR NEEDED!

help wanted

For Rent

BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT Heat, trash, snowplowing, lawn care, parking included. $1,175/ mo. 802‑453‑2566.

Help Wanted

If interested or for more information please contact Becky Congdon, Transportation Coordinator at 247-2769 EOE

For Rent

Help Wanted

For Sale

THE SALISBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY Has a position for a librarian. Hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 to 5 pm and Saturdays from 9 am to noon. Salary based on experience. Reply to csylvestri@hotmail.com by April 13th.

DOG TEAM ORIGINAL RECIPE Sticky Buns for Easter. Call 802‑349‑9473 for order and pickup time.

658 Exchange Street, Mid‑ dlebury.

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THE TOWN OF HINES‑ BURG is currently seeking an individual to fill a high‑ way maintainer position with the Highway Department. A Class B CDL (commercial driver’s license) with tanker and trailer endorsements is preferred. For an application or with questions, contact the Town Administrator’s office (tlashua@hinesburg. org; 482‑2281, ext. 221) or visit the website (www. hinesburg.org). The Town of Hinesburg is an equal opportunity employer.

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VERGENNES, VERMONT LAW firm seeks a part‑time legal assistant. Ideally quali‑ fications would include past experience in a law office, familiarity with commercial transactions, estate plan‑ ning, and administration, and real estate transactions, a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software and computer skills, and ex‑ cellent organizational skills.

Hours are fairly flexible. Pay to be commensurate with experience. Please e‑mail your letter of interest, re‑ sume, and references to: gwlange@langelawoffices. com.

For Sale ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage fire‑ arm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

CEDAR POSTS for sale.

8 footers, no points.

802‑388‑4831.

OAK LUMBER : 265 FT OF 1”X6” 8 ft long. $1.50 board/ feet. Other sizes available.

Call:802‑352‑4488.

THE BARREL MAN; plastic and metal barrels, 275 gal‑ lon totes. A barrel for every need. 802‑453‑4235.

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE commercial space.

As is or renovate to suit.

Creek Road, Middlebury.

802‑558‑6092.

273 MAIN STREET, VER‑ GENNES Available now, medium size 2 bedroom apartment. $920 per month.

Laundry hookups, large en‑ closed porch & full bath.

Heat and hot water includ‑ ed. Call 802‑862‑7467.

AVAILABLE NOW, SUNNY 2 bedroom at Willow Apt. in Vergennes. Off street park‑ ing, propane heat, must be 55 or older. Rent is $800 plus utilities. Call Summit Property at 247‑0165.

BRANDON: PARK VIL‑ LAGE is now accepting applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Rents starting at $700, includes heat and trash. No pets.

Laundry onsite. Income re‑ strictions apply. Call Sum‑ mit Property Management Group at 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.sum‑ mitpmg.com.

BRIDPORT; 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment.

No smoking, no pets.

802‑758‑2361.

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COLLECTION OF AN‑ TIQUE hit and miss engines.

Spare parts, tractor magne‑ tos and other engine related items. Call 802‑352‑6050.

BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT heat, hot water, snow and lawn care included. Carpeting.

Available now. $1150 per month. Basement. Garage.

802‑453‑2566.

For Rent

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM upstairs apt. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit Some utilities in‑ cluded. 388-0401.

FOR RENT PRIME RETAIL space. 1,303 square feet.

Location, location. Front door parking. Good visibility.

Call Eric at 388‑6054.

FURNISHED LARGE L‑SHAPED STUDIO in Middlebury. 10 minute walk to downtown. Cozy. Taste‑ ful. Private. Very clean. All included: Wi‑Fi, cable TV, all utilities, washer/dryer and parking. Text or call Ellie at 802‑989‑8941 for pictures and more information. $800 a month.

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PRIME RETAIL SPACE IN Middlebury. Located in the center of town with lots of foot traffic. Overlooks the falls on Otter Creek at 44 Main St. 740 sq. ft., AC. 802‑989‑7277 or 206‑715‑5344.

VERGENNES 3 BED‑ ROOM: washer/dryer hook‑ up, new appliances. $900/ month. No pets, no smok‑ ing. On Monkton Rd. Com‑ pleted application required prior to viewing apartment.

Must pass background check. 240‑281‑1508 or email: ocopom.ninja.turtle@ gmail.com. Available now.

WEST ADDISON: 2 STO‑ RY, furnished house on lakefront. Washer, dryer. No smoking. Available Septem‑ ber through May. $1,000/ month. 860‑878‑9580.

NEW HAVEN, QUIET 1 bed‑ room, furnished, basement apartment. $650/month plus deposit. No smoking, no pets. 802‑453‑3183.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, sunny apartment.

Garden space. No pets, no smoking. References, security deposit, lease. $875/month plus utilities.

802‑236‑2040.

FIRST SECOND CUT H AY s m a l l s q u a r e s .

802‑777‑0161.

W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

VOLVO V70 WAGON, $1,100., 1998, pewter, stick shift, with mounted snows plus one set of mounted Bridgestone tires, used one season. Also included Thule bike hitch. 161,300 miles, meticulously maintained, 2015 brakelines, new bat‑ tery, exhaust system, 2016 rack & pinion. All mainte‑ nance records on file. Avail‑ able separately, Volvo roof rack $50., Thule hitch mount Rac‑n‑loc bike carrier $75.

802‑388‑0551.

MIDDLEBURY NEWLY RENOVATED two bedroom house. Walking distance to schools and stores.

No smoking. No pets.

388‑7743.

NEW HAVEN, 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. Bright and spacious. Need 1st and last month’s rent. Price includes heat, electricity & rubbish removal. No pets, $1195 per month. Call 802‑453‑4037.

FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

Cars

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM upstairs apt. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit. Some utilities in‑ cluded. 388‑0401.

MIDDLEBURY: 1/ONE BEDROOM 2/two bed‑ rooms and 1 efficiency apartment. All recently reno‑ vated. Located on Court St. For more information call 802‑388‑4455.

Att. Farmers

SUVs

Wood Heat FIREWOOD, GREEN OR DRY cut, split. $200/cord.

802‑247‑6061.

Real Estate NEW 2017 ENERGY STAR display models. Modular, double and single wides.

Open 7 days a week. Up to $27,500 down payment assistance available on new homes if you qualify.

FactoryDirectHomesofVT. com. 600 Rte. 7 Pitts‑ ford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@beanshomes. com.

2013 TOYOTA RAV4 35,000 miles, white, AWD, spot‑ less, no scratches, dents or stains. Excellent condition.

Powertrain warranty still in effect, garaged, moon roof, cross bars, mudguard, back‑ up camera, bluetooth and audio controls on steering wheel. Snows included and full tank of gas. Fantastic driving car. $19,800. E‑mail: home4382@outlook.com or call 802‑233‑6588.

Wanted TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer special‑ izing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collectibles, etc. Visit www. bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Con‑ sulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

Addy Indy Classifieds are online:

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And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

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Public Notices Index

please email information to: legals@addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

Public notices for the following can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on this Page 8B.

Addison (1) Addison County Court House (1) Addison Northwest Supervisory Union – Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham (3) Bristol (2) Green Mount Cemetery Assoc. - Starksboro (1) PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record.

The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont. gov/SOS/rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Use of a Private Collection Agency for the Collection of Fees, Fines, and Restitution and for Administrative Servicing of Some Cases.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P011 AGENCY: Human Services, Dept. of Corrections CONCISE SUMMARY: This administrative rule will make it permissible, instead of mandatory, for the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) to contract with collection agencies to collect fees, fines, penalties or restitution monies owed to DOC. DOC Central Business Office has the capability to track and collect the monies owed to the Department generally.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Matt D’Agostino Department of Corrections NOB 2 South 280 State Drive, Waterbury VT 05671-2000 Tel: 802-241-0016 Fax: 802-2410020 Email: matt.dagostino@vermont.gov URL: http://corrections.vermont.gov/about/policies.

FOR COPIES: Gabrielle Tamasi, Department of Corrections NOB 2 South, 280 State Drive, Waterbury VT 05671-2000 Tel: 802-798-2555 Fax: 802-241-0020 Email: Gabrielle.Tamasi@vermont.gov.

4/6

WARNING SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT

(Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham) The legal voters of the Addison Northwest School District are hereby notified and warned to meet at 5:45 p.m., on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at Vergennes Union High School to transact the following business: Article 1. Shall the voters authorize the Addison Northwest School District to borrow money to be used for the payment of School District expenses pending receipt of payments from the State Education Fund by the issuance of its notes or orders payable not later than one year from dxate of issuance?

Dated at Vergennes, Vermont this 22nd day of March, 2017, Addison Northwest School District Board of Directors Susan Rakowski, Chair Rose Wenzel, Clerk 4/3

TOWN OF SHOREHAM NOTICE OF TAX SALE

The resident and non-resident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of the real estate in the Town of Shoreham, in the County of Addison, and State of Vermont are hereby notified that real estate taxes for the 2016 tax year and/or sewer fees for the year 2016 assessed by the Town of Shoreham remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid upon the following described real estate in the Town of Shoreham as indicated below, to wit: Michael T. Chicoine and Sara Chicoine: Delinquent 2016 Property Taxes Being 3 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all improvements thereon, located at 212 Philion Road, Shoreham, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael T. Chicoine and Sara Chicoine by Quit Claim Deed of Julie K. Chicoine dated December 28, 2006, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 67 at Page 488.

Darryl Davis: Delinquent 2016 Sewer Fees Being 1.1 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all improvements thereon, located at 2846 Route 22A, Shoreham, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Darryl Davis and Lori Davis by Warranty Deed of Russmann, LLC, dated May 16, 2006, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 65 at Page 664. Reference is made to a Quit Claim Deed from Lori Davis to Darryl Davis dated April 15, 2013, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 78 at Page 557.

And so much of said real estate will be sold at public auction at the Shoreham Town Clerk’s office, a public place in said Town on the 12th day of May, 2017 at 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

Any questions or inquiries regarding the above-referenced sale should be directed to the following address: Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C. ATTN: James F. Carroll, Esq. or Wanda M. Murray, Paralegal 64 Court Street Middlebury, Vermont 05753 Telephone: (802) 388-6711 Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C. and the Town of Shoreham do not give any opinion or certification as to the marketability of the titles to any of the above-referenced properties as held by the current owner/taxpayer.

The only acceptable forms of bid payment at the day of tax sale are: bank check payable to Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C., Real Estate Trust Account; letter of credit from bank followed by bank check payable to Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C., Real Estate Trust Account; and/or cash. No personal checks will be accepted.

Dated at Shoreham, Vermont this 20th day of March, 2017.

Kathleen Brisson, Town of Shoreham Delinquent Tax Collector 3/30

Green Mountain Power (1) Middlebury (1) Shoreham (1) Starksboro (1) Vermont Secretary of State (1) Weybridge (1) Weybridge Cemetery Assoc. (1) ADDISON NORTHWEST SUPERVISORY UNION PRESCHOOL SCREENING

What is it?

The ANWSU Early Education Program will hold its annual Child Developmental Screening Days for all 3 and 4 year old children living in the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union. The preschool screening involves activities that are both fun for young children and help us learn about a child’s motor, cognitive and language skills.

Who needs screening?

Any child who is 3 – 4 years old that resides in the towns of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham.

When and Where can my child be screened?

ANWSU is offering screenings at three different locations, on three different dates.

Choose the best date or site that works with your schedule and call (802) 877-3332 ext. 17 to make an appointment. Please call during the weeks of April 3rd and April 10th. You must make a screening appointment, and April 21st is the deadline to make an appointment.

Date Morning (8:30 - 10:30am) Afternoon (12:30 – 2:30) Monday, May 1st Vergennes Preschool Vergennes Preschool Tuesday, May 2nd Addison Central School Vergennes Preschool Wednesday, May 3rd Ferrisburgh Central School NO SCREENING 3/30

PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF ADDISON

The Addison Development Review Board will convene a public hearing on Monday, April 24, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Addison Central School on VT RTE 17 W to address the following applications: 1. An application (#16-09) from Louise Resendes & Searle Moulton on behalf of Merilda Resendes for approval of a single-lot subdivision of 05+/- acres from her 40+/- acre property located on Town Line Road (tax map ID# 14-00-49) for subsequent residential development. To continue for final with chair’s signing mylar & paper copies.

2. An application (#17-02) from Jeffrey and Jeannette Randall to consider conditionaluse approval for removal of an existing 16’ by 20’ detached garage and its replacement by a 20’ by 24’ attached garage on their property located on Potash Bay Road (tax map ID# 04-01-52.000) in accordance with the provisions of S.2.4, Table 2.3 (C) and 5.7 of the Town’s Zoning Regulations. Variances to or waivers of the lakeshore, front-yard and side-yard minimum setback distances specified in S.3.12 (A)(1) and S.2.4, Table 2.3(C of the Regulations will also be required.

The application is available for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office during normal office hours. Interested parties who wish to appeal or to be heard at the hearing may do so in person, or may be represented by an agent or an attorney. Communications relating to the application may be filed in writing with the Board either before or during the hearing.

N.B.: Participation in a hearing is necessary to establish status as an “interested person” and the right to appeal a decision rendered in that hearing, according to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. 117 S.S.4464 (a) (1) (C), 4465(b) and 4471 (a). Participation consists of offering, through oral or written testimony, evidence or a statement of concern directly related to the subject of the hearing.

Respectfully Submitted, John Spencer, Chair Starr Phillips, Board Secretary E. W. Hanson, Administrative Officer 4/6

The Town of Bristol Selectboard hereby provides notice pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1061, for the purpose of notice to the public of the following: The Bristol Selectboard intends to convey a deed of ownership to William Gibbs, for a parcel of land located at 32 North Street, parcel #235025, being .21 acres as described in the warranty deed dated June 6, 1972, and recorded in the Bristol Land Records in book 41 page 416, the warranty deed dated September 7, 1972 and recorded in the Bristol Land Records in book 41 page 523 and the warranty deeds dated September 5, 1978 and recorded in the Bristol Land Records in book 49 pages 136 - 138. The price for said property was subject to an advertised public bid process. The sale price will be $95,000 cash at closing for the property “as is”. Closing is intended to take place no later than Friday, April 7, 2017. For further information regarding the terms of this sale, please contact the Bristol Town Administrator Therese Kirby at PO Box 249, 1 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443, or by calling (802) 453-2410.

This sale was discussed as article 14 of the 2016 Town Meeting warning.

In accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 1061 (a) (2), if a petition signed by five percent of the legal voters of the municipality objecting to the proposed conveyance is presented to the municipal clerk within 30 days of the date of posting and publication of the notice, the legislative body shall cause the question of whether the municipality shall convey the real estate to be considered at a special or annual meeting called for that purpose.

After the meeting, the real estate may be conveyed unless a majority of the voters of the municipality present and voting vote to disapprove of the conveyance.

Dated and posted this 4th day of April, 2017.

Bristol Selectboard 4/6

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY – DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 24, 2017 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Municipal Office Building, 77 Main Street, to consider the following: 1. An application by Middlebury Farmers Market for a Conditional Use review of a proposal to a locate a farmers market at the Veterans of Foreign Wars property located on 530 Exchange Street in the General Commercial District.

2. An application by John Rouse for a Conditional Use and Subdivision review of a proposal to perform a minor subdivision and construct a warehouse on a parcel owned by Foster Brothers Farms. This property is identified as parcel # 8:107h and is located at the end of Wilson Road in the Agricultural Rural District.

All interested persons may appear and be heard. Written materials may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office during regular business hours. (802) 388-8100, Ext 210. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Jennifer L. Murray 4/6 Town Planner/Zoning Administrative Officer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS ADDISON NORTHWEST SUPERVISORY UNION

The following schedule of the Board of School Directors’ meetings is announced for the month of April, 2017.

Friday, April 7 • 7:30 a.m.

Vergennes Union High School Board Facilities Committee at VUHS Wednesday, April 19 • 6:00 p.m. Addison Central School Board, Ferrisburgh Central School Board, Vergennes Union Elementary School Board, Vergennes Union High School Board (VUHS Library) - In Individual Rooms at VUHS Wednesday, April 19 • 7:00 p.m. Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Board MEETING in the VUHS Library ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT Tuesday, April 4 • 8:30 a.m.

Negotiations Subcommittee Meeting in the ANWSU Office Monday, April 10 • 5:00 p.m.

Negotiations Subcommittee Meeting in the VUHS Main Hall Conference Room Monday, April 10 • 6:00 p.m.

Negotiations Subcommittee & ANTA Meeting in the VUHS Library Friday, April 14 • 7:30 a.m.

Facilities Subcommittee Meeting at the ANWSU Office Monday, April 17 • 6:00 p.m.

Policy Subcommittee Meeting at VUHS Tuesday, April 18 • 6:00 p.m.

Community Engagement Subcommittee Meeting at the Bixby Library Thursday, April 20 • 5:00 p.m.

Negotiations Subcommittee Meeting in the VUHS Main Hall Conference Room Thursday, April 20 • 6:00 p.m.

Negotiations Subcommittee & ANTA Meeting in the VUHS Library Wednesday, April 26 • 5:45 p.m. SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING in the VUHS Library Wednesday, April 26 • 6:00 p.m. ANWSD Board Meeting in the VUHS Library The purpose of each meeting is to transact regular business, including a review of correspondence, reports, approval of bills, and any other business proper to be brought before said meetings, unless otherwise specified.

4/6, 10, 13

GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION NOTICE OF MEETING

The Green Mount Cemetery Association will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Starksboro Town Offices. Any interested parties are invited to attend.

4/6

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

WEYBRIDGE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

The Weybridge Cemetery Association Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Weybridge Town Clerk’s office. For questions, call 545-2502.

3//30, 4/3,6

PUBLIC NOTICE INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

TOWN OF STARKSBORO DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Starksboro Development Review Board (DRB) will hold a public hearing(s) at the Starksboro Town Office on April 27, 2017 beginning at 7:45 P.M. to review the following application(s).

1. Application # 2017DRB-02-SP/CU is a request by Kit and Karen Harris to hold up to 10 yearly outdoor recreational events (i.e. festivals, concerts, etc.) on their property located at 3556 VT Rte. 17, parcel # E51725E. As proposed this is a commercial use of property which requires site plan and conditional use approval from the Town. The hearing review will be conducted pursuant to the sections 424 and 425 of the Starksboro Land Use and Development Regulations. Parcel E51725E is a 76+/- acre parcel with frontage on VT Rte. 17 in the Agricultural Scenic and Rural Residential District. Application # 2017DRB-02-SP/ CU is available for review at the Town Office. This will be the first business item on the DRB’s agenda.

2. Application #2017DRB-03-W is a request by Jonathan and Samantha Fenner for a waiver from the provisions of the Starksboro Land Use and Development Regulations on parcel # F466S. Specifically, the applicant is proposing to construct a barn/accessory structure within the required setback. The DRB will conduct a review of the waiver request pursuant to section #423. Parcel #F466S is located at 1220 Robert Young Road in the Low Density and Residential Commercial District. Application # 2017DRB-03-W is available for review at the Town Office. This will be the second business item on the DRB’s agenda.

Interested persons are invited to attend the hearing, or send a representative. DRB hearings are conducted in the order they are listed, applicants and other interested parties should be prepared to wait. Pursuant to 24 VSA § 4464(a)(1)(C) and 4471(a), participation in this local proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

David Wetmore Administrative Officer 4/6

TOWN OF WEYBRIDGE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLANNING COMMISSION

SELECTIVE VEGETATION CONTROL Green Mountain Power, 2152 Post Rd Rutland, Vermont 05701 has applied for a permit from the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to apply herbicides. All herbicides will be applied selectively to cut stumps, or stems and foliage. This notice is to inform residents along the right-of-way that water supplies and other environmentally sensitive areas near the rightof-way should be protected from an application. It is residents’ responsibility to notify the contact person of the existence of a private water supply near the right-of-way. The contact person at Green Mountain Power is Jarod Wilcox, Utility Arborist toll-free 1-888-835-4672. Further information may also be obtained from Plant Industry Division, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602-2901; (802) 828-2431.

Operations will begin on or about May 22, 2017 using the following herbicides: Garlon® 4 Ultra, Krenite® S, Polaris® Maintenance involves select sections of GMP distribution* lines in: ADDISON COUNTY: Addison, Bridport, Bristol, Cornwall, Ferrisburgh, Goshen, Granville, Hancock, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlebury, Monkton, New Haven, Orwell, Panton, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Starksboro,Waltham, Weybridge, Whiting *Treatment is limited to select areas in the distribution line right-of-way. Distribution lines carry electricity from electrical substations to the homes and businesses of customers.

Green Mountain Power 2152 Post Rd Rutland, VT 05701

DBB

TOWN OF BRISTOL NOTICE OF CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE

To publish a legal notice in the Addison Independent

4/6

A public hearing before the Weybridge Planning Commission will be held at the Town Clerk’s Office on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at 7:00 PM, and on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at 7:00 p.m., to pursue the following business: To review a subdivision request submitted by the Mary Lew Collins Trust to subdivide her land into a major subdivision of 5 lots as classified by the Weybridge Planning Commission. The property is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Route 23 and Perkins Road in Weybridge, Vermont.

Persons wishing to be heard at this Public Meeting may do so in person or may be represented at the meeting by a licensed Vermont Attorney or an authorized agent; please note that in accordance with Chapter 117, Section 4464 of the Vermont statues that participation in the Public Meeting is a prerequisite to the right to take subsequent appeal.

The full application and survey can be viewed at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours.

Jeff Olson, Chair Weybridge Planning Commission 3//30, 4/3,6

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS - TOWN OF BRISTOL West Street & Lovers Lane Infrastructure Improvements Project, Bristol, VT 05443

Separate sealed Bids for the construction of the West Street & Lovers Lane Infrastructure Improvements project will be received for work including, but not limited to, the installation of ~4,200 LF of 8-inch dia. water pipe, several fire hydrant replacements, a pressure reducing valve vault, an underground meter pit manhole, curb stops & boxes, new corporation stops, new ¾” copper house service lines and water main isolation valves.

Bids will be received by the Town of Bristol at the municipal offices located at: Holley Hall, 1 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443 until 3:00 p.m., (Prevailing Local Time) on Thursday, April 27, 2017, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.

The Contract Documents may be examined at the following location(s): Green Mountain Engineering, 1438 South Brownell Road, Williston, VT 05495 Bristol Town Offices, 1 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443 Works in Progress, 20 Farrell Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 Copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained at the Issuing Office: Green Mountain Engineering, P.O. Box 159, 1438 So. Brownell Rd. Williston, VT 05495 upon payment of $150.00 for each set.

A Bid BOND, Performance BOND and a Payment BOND each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price, will be required.

Any BIDDER, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS within 30 days after the actual date of BID opening and in good condition, will be refunded the payment, and any non-bidder upon so returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will be refunded $75.00.

Federal minimum wage rates and public work employment laws are applicable.

A pre-bid conference for prospective bidders will be held at the Bristol Town Offices, located at 1 South Street, Bristol, VT at 11:00 am on Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

Representatives of Green Mountain Engineering and the Town of Bristol Water System will be present to answer questions from bidders and discuss participation requirements.

3/24/2017 Ms. Therese Kirby, Town Administrator Date Authorized Representative

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Troopers busy with DUI, crashes ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police stopped a vehicle on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh on April 2 at 6:17 p.m. after observing multiple traffic violations.

Trooper Brett Flansburg reports that he observed signs of impairment in the driver, identified as 22-yearold Cory Benoit of Burlington, so the officer screened Benoit for drunkenness. Benoit submitted to a preliminary breath test, which showed his blood alcohol content was 0.165 percent; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

The trooper took Benoit into custody, transported him to the New Haven state police barracks for processing, and cited him for driving under the influence. Benoit is due to answer the charge in Addison Superior Court, criminal division, on April 17.

In other recent activity, state police: • On March 29 at 6 p.m. stopped a car on Upper Plains Road in Salisbury. Troopers cited the driver, identified as Brittany Roberts, 30, of Ripton, for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On March 29 at approximately 6:30 p.m. went to the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Route 22A near Cross Street in Bridport. Police report that 29-year-old Chandra Khatiwoda if Essex Junction was driving a 2015 Ford truck northbound on Route 22A when she lost control of the vehicle, and it rolled over on the passenger side.

Khatiwoda, who was wearing a seat belt, was not hurt; the vehicle was towed from the scene. Neither alcohol nor drugs were determined to be contributing factors in the collision.

• On March 30 announced that they had cited Patrick McCullough, 25, of Granville for selling stolen property. State police say McCullough attempted to sell several firearms and other items stolen in the March 16 burglary of a

Route 64 home in Williamstown.

• On March 30 at 8:20 a.m. stopped a silver 2012 Toyota Avalon driven by Cheryl Barrows, 52, of Salisbury for travelling over the posted speed limit on Route 7 in Leicester. Police cited Barrows for driving with a criminally suspended license.

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• On March 31 at 5 p.m. received a report of a possible domestic assault that occurred on March 30.

After investigating, police said they determined that Brian Bowdish, 30, of Salisbury caused injury to a household member. Troopers cited Bowdish for domestic assault.

• On March 31 at approximately 9:25 p.m. responded to a two-car crash on Route 22A near Short Street in Bridport. Suseanne Goulet, 50, of Orwell told police that she was driving a 2003 Chevy Impala southbound on Route 22A on that snowy evening when she struck a chunk of ice or snow that was in the roadway.

After she applied her brakes she began to skid and then collided with a northbound vehicle, which police identified as a 2010 Suzuki Kizashi driven by Corey Steadman, 33, of Jericho. Steadman told police that he was driving 25 mph and that he could see a vehicle crossing into his lane of travel and he attempted to steer toward the shoulder to avoid a collision. But the cars struck each other.

No injuries were sustained as a result of the collision. Both vehicles sustained moderate front-end damage. Neither alcohol nor drugs played a factor in the collision, police said.

• On April 1 at just before 4 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 17

in New Haven, and cited the driver, identified as Alara Bourgeois, 23, of Bristol, for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On April 2 at approximately 6:46 a.m. responded, along with Middlebury Regional EMS and the New Haven Fire Department, to a one-car crash on River Road near East Street in New Haven. Police report that Amanda Alexander, 35, of Bristol was driving a 2001 Subaru Outback westbound when she lost control of the vehicle due to defective equipment. Alexander reportedly attempted to correct the vehicle, causing the car to travel off the westbound lane and into a utility pole. Alexander was screened

by Middlebury Regional EMS and released. The car sustained moderate front-end damage.

• On April 3 at approximately 7:43 a.m. responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash on Quaker Village Road in Weybridge. Police report that a New Holland tractor driven

by Dan Kehoa, 58, of Weybridge entered the roadway in front of a 2003 Acura TL driven by Linda Kulhowvick, 66, of Weybridge.

Kulhowvick suffered a head laceration as a result of the crash, and Middlebury Regional EMS transported her to Porter Hospital for treatment. Her car was totaled. The tractor and driver were unimpaired.

• On Tuesday, April 4, arrested two different men on separate warrants and delivered them to the Addison County Courthouse for arraignment.

Officers from the VSP and Middlebury Police Department came in contact with Terrance Derrick, 57, of Middlebury and took him into custody for an outstanding warrant.

Separately, troopers came across Jason Bradley, 32, of Salisbury and determined that Bradley had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, so they arrested him.

Vergennes man cited for vandalism VERGENNES — After dealing with a series of complaints about the man earlier last week, Vergennes police on March 30 cited Jacob McDowell, 26, who they described as homeless, for unlawful mischief for allegedly slashing tires on three vehicles in the city.

Police said they also issued a no-trespass order to him on behalf of the John Graham Shelter, where he had been staying, and are investigating him in connection with slashed tires on two more vehicles discovered on March 31. After the citation, police said they dropped McDowell off in New Haven Junction at his request.

On March 27 and twice on March 29 police said they spoke to McDowell after citizen complaints that they were uncomfortable about him taking multiple pictures of people, passing cars and homes in the Monkton Road area, outside Shaw’s Supermarket and near Gaines Insurance.

On the 27th police said he agreed to stop taking pictures, and when police first spoke to him on the 29th police said McDowell described the camera work as his hobby. Police ordered him to leave the area the

final time they spoke to him on March 29.

In other action between March 27 and April 2, Vergennes police: • On March 27 informed a South Water Street resident about a death

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in the family.

• On March 28 met a man at Champlain Farms who had just had a job interview but missed the bus back to Burlington and had to wait eight hours for the next bus; an officer who lives up north gave the man a ride home when his shift ended.

• On March 29 dealt with the case of a 17-year-old girl caught shoplifting a rechargeable battery pack and a USB drive from Kinney Drug Store; police contacted a parent, and the store agreed the teen could return and pay for the items.

• On March 29 told a motorist making a lengthy cell phone call after hours in Falls Park he had to move along.

• On March 30 responded to a reported family fight at a Main Street apartment and calmed two youths.

• On March 30 calmed a dispute between a father and his adult daughter at a Green Street residence.

• On March 31 dealt with a minor two-car accident on Monkton Road.

• On April 1 called a tow truck to help a car that had slid off West Main Street.

• On April 1 gave a drunken man a ride home after finding him walking in the middle of Main Street; police said they asked him where he had been, and he responded “Limit Cities.”

• On April 2 cited Adam J. Gebo, 36, of Bristol for driving under the influence of alcohol after stopping his car for allegedly failing to stop at the junction of New Haven Road and Route 7. Police allege Gebo’s blood-alcohol content tested at 0.102; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

• On April 2 checked a report of a suspicious car after hours at Gaines Insurance and discovered it belonged to cleaners.

Learn how to volunteer at Rokeby Museum FERRISBURGH — Every April, as part of National Volunteers Month, Rokeby Museum celebrates volunteers with an orientation session for new recruits. This year’s tour guide orientation will happen on Saturday,

April 22, at 10 a.m.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofit organizations, and Rokeby is no exception. It offers a unique opportunity for personal

education and service rolled into one.

Volunteers handle everything from tour guiding to bookkeeping. With its exceptional Underground Railroad history, Rokeby holds a particular interest to those who love working with people, art and antiques, history, and reading other people’s mail.

New guides will complete a brief training course that introduces them to the remarkable Quaker family that

Salisbury SALISBURY — The Salisbury Fire Department’s annual Pancake Breakfast will be held this Sunday, April 9, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. at the Salisbury Community School. Pancakes, bacon, sausages, beverages and all the fixings will be served. Tickets are $10 adults

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and $5 for children 12 and under.

Families of Salisbury pre-school and kindergarten age children are invited to an informational/registration meeting in the school library on Wednesday, April 19, from 5:30

to 6:30 p.m. To be eligible for these programs, children must be age 3, 4, or 5 on or before September 1, 2017.

Please bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate and immunization record with you. RSVP to Donna at the school 352-4291 if you plan to attend.

Ferrisburgh Historical Society to meet at workshop

FERRISBURGH — At its April 9 meeting, the Ferrisburgh Historical Society will visit the workshop of Craig Farrow, a master furniture maker and joiner.

Since 1972, Farrow has carved out a career building reproductions of 17th and 18th century furniture and architectural components, working as a joiner, turner, carver, and cabinetmaker. He works in the old, slow ways, using antique tools and finishes, and making his own tools if necessary to recreate an antique with faithful precision.

Farrow works out of his own one-man shop, but also teaches classes at various historic sites including Historic Deerfield, Mass.

Farrow is passionate about sharing his skill with tools and working wood. At the visit, he will show examples, talk about and demonstrate how the wonderful work of our past was made from MASTER WOODWORKER CRAIG Farrow will open workshop to the tree to the finished piece.

Ferrisburgh Historical Society this Sunday, April 9.

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LINCOLN — Spring has Sprung!

Don’t forget the two Midd Winds concerts; the first on Friday April 7, at 7 p.m., at Middlebury Union High School auditorium and the second at Mt. Abraham Union High School on Sunday, April, 9 at 4 p.m. Soon we should hear the peepers, which tells us it is truly Spring.

Tom Broughton Auctioneer

Auctions

• Home • Estates • Commercial • Consignments Bridport, VT • 758-2494 tombroughtonauctions.com

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for March 27 & March 30 BEEF Kayhart Bros.

Nop Bros.

B. Guillemette M. Brisson Four Hills Farm A. Brisson

Costs Lbs. per lb Dollars 1295 .75 971.25 1450 .765 1,109.25 1025 .70 717.50 1275 .69 879.75 1425 .685 976.13 1280 .675 864.00

CALVES J. Fifield Nop Bros.

Hatch Farm Clifford Farm Danyow Farm

Lbs. 100 104 102 104 97

Costs per lb Dollars 1.50 150.00 1.15 119.60 1.10 112.20 1.05 109.20 1.15 111.55

Total # Beef: 270 • Total # Calves: 376 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

AUCTION

SATURDAY – APRIL 15TH, 2017 - STARTING @ 11 AM Having sold our cows and leased the land, we will sell the following at public auction located at 277 Tucker Rd, Orange, VT. 05641. Located half way between East Barre and Washington, VT off RT 110 onto Tucker Rd and watch for auction signs.

called Rokeby home and the 200 years of history they lived here. Volunteers study historic photographs, documents, art, and artifacts from the Museum’s extensive collection and then share what they have learned with visitors, working two tour days per month during the season (May 21 to October 29 this year).

For more information e-mail Jane Williamson at rokeby@comcast.net.

SELLING FARM MACHINERY & TOOLS 2009 NH TN75DA 4WD tractor w/cab, heat & AC, radio, NH 810 loader, 80” bucket, 1780 hrs; 2007 NH TL80A 4WD tractor w/cab, heat & AC, radio, front weights, 1450 hrs; 2004 Case 40XT skid steer w/cab, heat, radio, 66” bucket, 2750 hrs; 1985 Int. 1654 diesel, auto, stake body truck, w/25,100 miles; Kuhn FC283 mower conditioner, Kuhn GF5202HA hyd fold tedder, Paquea HR5 rake w/tandem axle & hyd lift, JD 328 baler w/42 ejector, hyd tongue, HD pto; 3-Diller 8x16 steel kicker wagons on HD

8T running gear w/flotation tires, 32’ Snoco transport hay elevator, Kuhn Knight 8114 slinger spreader w/new bushings, Couture 12x7 HD dump trailer, Brillion 8’ seeder, 3PTH Spinner fert spreader, Elevator diverter, 3pth Round bale spear, 3PTH Pronovost 7’ snow blower w/hyd chute, 3PTH HD Wood splitter 30”, Blecavator one pass tiller, Bobcat 1yd 74” bucket, Bobcat 3pth adapter, IH 56 4 row corn planter, NH 824 2 row corn head,

AgriMetal 42 gas powered silage cart, 2 Poly Dome square hutches, tractor chains, Water tubs & floats, Feed troughs, Hay Elevator sections & chain, Poly Fence post & fencing, Electric 7.5hp motor, Sawdust & Feed carts, 2-42” & 1-36” alley fans, Metal Fencepost, Wheel barrows, Hand tools (shovels, rakes, hoes, etc), Antique water pump, plus many more farm tools and supplies

Most all of this equipment has been purchased new, is well maintained, and is undercover on the Childs farm.

CASH or GOOD CHECK • 6% SALES TAX • NO BUYERS FEE LUNCH BY WRIGHT’S CATERING — There will be many more items included in this sale.

AUCTIONEERS: C W GRAY & SON’S, INC.

EAST THETFORD, VT Sale site Jan. 20, 21& 22 • 802-296-5806 • VT LIC # 128 • 802-785-2161 Email address: cwgray@valley.net Web address: www.cwgray.com • www.auctionzip.com

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Olympic history and Olympic future Journalist: First-hand account of the Games MIDDLEBURY — Veteran Sports Illustrated journalist Alex Wolff will examine the recent history of the World Olympic Games on April 19, at 7:30 p.m. In “FiveRing Circus: Why We Can’t Live With the Olympics — or Without Them,” Wolff will address the risks and rewards of the Olympic Games, and reflect on covering 10 of them, summer and winter, over 36 years with Sports Illustrated.

The talk, at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society at 2 Duane Court, Middlebury, is free and open to the public.

Wolff is a contributing writer with Sports Illustrated, having left the staff in 2016 as its longest-tenured writer.

In addition to covering basketball at all levels and the Olympics, he has written from soccer’s World Cup, the World Series, every Grand Slam tennis event, and the Tour de France. Sports Illustrated story assignments have taken him to such countries as China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia, and dealt with such issues at the intersection of sport and society as race, ethnicity, gender, drugs, the environment, education, youth development, business, conflict and ethics, as well as cultural themes like style, food and the media.

Wolff is the author or co-author of seven books about basketball.

They include “Raw Recruits,” a New York Times bestseller that examined college basketball recruiting; “Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure,” an account of a year spent chasing the game around the globe to take the measure of its impact, which the New York Times Book Review named a Notable Book for 2002; and “The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama.” He is currently editing an anthology of basketball writing for the Library of America that will be published next spring.

Wolff’s writing for Sports Illustrated has been honored many times, including with multiple appearances in The Best American Sports Writing. In 1996 he and “Hoop Dreams” filmmakers Peter Gilbert and Steve James collaborated on “Team of Broken Dreams,” an Emmy-nominated documentary that detailed the impact of the Yugoslav crisis on basketball players from

ALEX WOLFF the Balkans. Broadcast on NBC and based on one of Wolff’s Sports Illustrated articles, the film won the International Olympic Committee’s Media Award.

At Princeton University in 2002, he taught an undergraduate seminar called Writing About Sports and the Wider World. In 2010 he served as commencement speaker at Springfield College, and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honored him with its 2011 Curt Gowdy Media Award for contributions to the game as a print journalist.

Wolff attended Brighton High School in Rochester, N.Y., where he co-captained the varsity basketball team. He earned his B.A. in History with honors from Princeton after taking a leave to play basketball for a season with STV Luzern, a club team in Switzerland.

In 2006 Wolff and his wife, Va n e s s a ,

founded the Vermont Frost Heaves of the American Basketball Association, whose birth and life he chronicled in SI and on the website si.com.

The Wolffs reside in Cornwall.

When asked why they had chosen Vermont, he said: “Both Vanessa and I grew up in college towns — she in Hanover, N.H., and me in Princeton, N.J. — and we knew we wanted to settle in one, ideally in Vermont, given that both sets of our kids’ grandparents lived in the Upper Valley. We moved to Cornwall when our son Frank was less than a year old, and our daughter was born a year after that at Porter Hospital.

“For me, it’s been a great base from which to travel to report stories and to come back to write them.

Vanessa, who used to be a freelance film editor, reinvented herself as a registered nurse and works for Addison County Home Health & Hospice.”

Wolff’s presentation is the third such annual event jointly sponsored by the Henry Sheldon Museum and the Hawthorne Club.

The event is jointly sponsored by the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History and the Hawthorne Club.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED JOURNALIST Alex Wolff will speak on the risks and rewards of the Olympic Games on April 19.

Sisters take DAR prizes

ADDIE BROOKS (LEFT), a 9th-grader at Vergennes Union High School, and her sister, 7th-grader Olivia Brooks, each won honors in this year’s NSDAR 2016-2017 essay contest. Addie received a 2nd place certificate for her entry in the Christopher Columbus contest. Olivia received a 1st place pin, certificate and monetary award for her entry in the American History contest. Joy Minns (center), Regent of the Seth Warner – Rhoda Farrand chapter of the DAR, presented the awards to the sisters.

Classes help young farmers build financial skills BURLINGTON — A University of Vermont (UVM) Extension program that helps aspiring young farmers build financial skills and business assets is accepting applications through May 10 for its upcoming one-year program that starts in late June.

The Youth Agricultural Individual Development Account (IDA) Program, a collaboration between the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Vermont 4-H, offers farm financial management education, mentoring and networking opportunities at no cost to participants. It also provides a 2-to-1 match of their savings, up to a total of $1,000 in match funding, for the purchase of a business-related item such as a piece of equipment or livestock upon completion of an approved

business plan.

Applications are available at all UVM Extension offices statewide or online at http://go.uvm.edu/ youth-ag-ida.

Applicants must be between the ages of 14 and 21 as of June 1, and have at least one year of experience managing their own income from any size farm or food business from a backyard egg operation to a large sugarbush. They do not need to be in school although may earn school credit for their work in the program.

Participants will be paired with a mentor as well as work with farm business management experts to develop a business plan and learn about the financial aspects of operating an agricultural business.

They also will attend workshops, meet with established farmers and receive other assistance pertinent to

their operation.

The Youth Ag IDA program began in 2012 with funding from the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and continues through the support of businesses and families. In the program’s first four cycles, more than 20 youths used their savings plus match funds to purchase assets, such as breeding ewes and a hay baler, to help them launch or sustain an agricultural business in Vermont.

Email questions to Liz Kenton, IDA Program coordinator, at ekenton@uvm.edu or (802) 2576967, ext. 308. To request a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program, contact the program by April 24.

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Jim Geier sits in one of his Vermont Folk Rocking chairs with his Jack Russell Terrier Wally at his workshop in Starksboro.

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Jim Geier rocks his chairs into perfection

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ack in 1975, Jim Geier made his first Vermont Folk Rocker. The ‘65 Saint Mike’s College grad was renovating houses in the Burlington area at the time and had some two-by-fours, plywood and clothes line laying around. So, naturally, he made a hammock.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

“But the hammock didn’t come out so well,” laughed Geier in a recent interview.

“So I made it into a four-legged chair... I was playing around and making things, and sometimes it turns into something. All art is like that. I do a lot of painting and it’s very much like making furniture: you have a canvas or a piece of wood and try to make something.”

Satisfied that he had something, Geier hired a guy who knew more about furniture making than he did, and put a “sloppy shingle” out on the corner of Howard and Pine streets in Burlington. Soon after, a client from Shelburne made a large order.

The team begins with wood from northern forests, they plane it into boards and make the parts of the chair. “Everything has a jig, and each jig has a different purpose: mark, hold, cut, glue, squeeze... you can’t go out and buy these; we made our own,” explained Geier.

“It was a crash course,” said Geier. “But after making 50 pieces, I figured I probably knew how to make furniture... and if I didn’t, I was in trouble.”

The woodwork happens in a large shop with dust-covered anti-nuke memorabilia and other faded poster art. Geier’s passion for peace and creativity is on display throughout the shop with his own artwork and others.

After 15 years in Burlington, Geier moved his operation to Starksboro, where he continues to make the iconic rocking chairs. These days he has help from seven employees: Shawn Euber, Ryan Lee and Debbie Blakeslee, all of Starksboro; Pat Cyr of New Haven; Shea Denny of Richmond; DJ Detweiler of Huntington; and Alice Chandler of Bristol. Oh, and don’t forget Geier’s Jack Russell Terrier, Wally.

Once the chair frame is assembled and sanded, it is soaked twice in linseed oil.

“There’s no dryer in it,” said Geier. “Dryer is what makes it dry fast and hard.” It also has a lot of nasty chemicals. “Linseed oil will not SEE ROCKER ON PAGE 3

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Guys and dolls KATE GRIDLEY PHOTOGRAPHS SHELDON MUSEUM’S COLLECTION

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he exhibit “Focus on the Sheldon: A Five-Point Perspective” includes the captivating, somewhat eerie photographs of dolls in the Sheldon Museum’s collection

by Middlebury artist Kate Gridley.

In researching other doll collections, Sheldon Museum’s Executive Director Bill Brooks learned that American males were often the leading doll collectors and doll makers. Henry Sheldon founded his museum in 1882, which now maintains a modest collection of three dozen dolls, seven of which were chosen for representation in the current exhibit by Gridley.

A premier collector was Samuel F. Pryor, Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut (1898-1985) who amassed a collection, known as the International Doll Library Foundation, which at its peak, numbered 8,000 dolls. A December 1964, Reader’s Digest article described dolls being “everywhere, all sizes and ages, from every country under the sun, from every period in history, for the last 3,500 years.” Pryor’s doll collection attracted thousands of visitors each year. ‘’Why do I call it a library?’’ Pryor explained, ‘’I call it a library because every doll tells a story just like a book.’’ The collection was auctioned in 1982 and those stories now live in other repositories.

Another New Englander, Morton Bartlett, following his death in 1992 was discovered to be an accomplished maker of dolls. Born in 1909, Barrett attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College (class of 1932). Known professionally as a Boston graphic designer and photographer, it was not until after his death that an antiques dealer discovered Bartlett’s collection of hand-made dolls and photographs of them. Bartlett is now considered “an outsider artist.” His dolls and photographs can be found in leading outsider art galleries and art fairs.

Brooks’ father was in the same Exeter and Harvard classes as Bartlett, but Brooks was never able to determine from his father, who also died in 1992, if they were acquainted.

Brooks discovered a local story — Samuel F. Pryor, Jr.’s grandson, Samuel F. Pryor IV, was the recent owner/president of Connor Homes of Middlebury.

Into this mix of guys — Henry Sheldon,

“Hans,” by Kate Gridley, is one of seven photographs of dolls from the Sheldon Museum. These pictures are part of the “Focus on the Sheldon” exhibit that runs through May 13. Gridley will present a gallery talk on April 19 at noon.

Sam Pryor and Morton Bartlett — enters Middlebury artist Gridley. Known primarily for her portraits — most recently for those of Governor Jim Douglas, Federal Judge William Sessions, and local students — Gridley spent many days viewing the three dozen dolls in the Henry Sheldon Museum collection. All packed away in archival paper and boxes in the storage shelves devoted to toys, she chose seven to photograph. All seven dolls and her photographs are on view in the “Focus on the Sheldon” exhibit.

“Hans,” a blond, blue-eyed German doll, circa 1950, wears a blue outfit and is captured in an upright position, from the waist up. He is a reminder of one of the Von Trapp sons escaping Austria and made famous in the Sound of Music. The original is located in a nearby case where his brown shoes are evident.

Both her choice of dolls and her resulting photographs bring multiple artistic and viewer interpretations. In reflecting on her process, Gridley wrote: “The Sheldon dolls, dusty, missing arms, some in faded clothes, hair worn off, may have been alive, real, to a child in the past. Holding dreams and thoughts, I imagine they may have spoken.

Gridley brings new interpretations to the doll collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum.

While many “guys” have been instrumental and dedicated to collecting dolls, the Sheldon has found a talented “doll” photographer to bring new meaning to the beloved toys of prior generations. On April 19 at noon, Gridley will present a gallery talk; the exhibit closes on May 13.

“I made portraits of the dolls as I would a living subject, posing them, looking to catch their inner feelings, in abstract patterns of light and dark. We know nothing of the children who held them, nor what they were called, but I have named the portraits.”

The Henry Sheldon Museum is located at 1 Park Street in Middlebury. Admission to the museum is $5 adults; $3 youth (6-18); $4.50 seniors; $12 family; $5 research center. For more info visit (802) 388-2117 or visit www.

HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

Three rooms are devoted to the exhibit. In the upstairs Cerf Gallery six of Gridley’s seven photographs are on display, along with three of the featured dolls.

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5-Town Friends of the Arts honors Sutherland

Pete Sutherland will be honored at Holley Hall this Sunday.

PHOTO / STEPHEN MEASE

Jim Geier, left, demonstrates how the blocks are strung together to make the chair seat and back. The original 1975 Vermont Folk Rocker is on display at the woodshop studio in Starksboro.

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totally dry for months, but eventually you get a patina that feels really smooth.”

A series of connected wooden blocks are finished, oiled and “quilted” together to make the chair seat and back. This is Geier’s signature. The chair frame is held in a jig while the blocks are sewn into place with what looks like a very large needle.

The final touches come from Blakeslee, who makes each chair a custom, handmade pillow-headrest and footstool. The footstools are not your normal ottoman, they call them “footsie rolls” because they look like two Tootsie Rolls put together.

“They’re meant for your feet to rest on, not your whole leg. It’s really comfortable,” said Geier.

Each batch of chairs (6080 chairs per batch) takes three months to complete.

Chairs retail for $1,775. Every year, Geier does at least four raffles including the upcoming 5-Town Friends of the Arts event on Sunday.

“Over the years, the angle of the seat and the armrests have

On Sunday, April 9, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., join 5Town Friends of the Arts at Holley Hall in Bristol to honor Pete Sutherland, local musician, artist, teacher, writer and mentor.

The event is a celebration of Sutherland’s contributions to Vermont’s cultural heritage.

changed,” said Geier. “But now, it’s perfect... or at least at a point where I like it just the way it is.”

Music on Sunday will be performed by Nate Gusakov, Jamie Masefield, Caleb Elder and friends. Refreshments will be available, and a Vermont Folk Rocker raffle drawing will be held.

Can’t make it to the April 9 show but still want to buy a raffle ticket? Purchase them at Art on Main; only 300 will be sold.

The event is free (raffle tickets are $10). For more info visit 5townfriendsofthearts.org.

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OUT OF TOWN Heliand Consort premieres a chamber opera

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eliand Consort’s 10th anniversary season continues in dramatic style with the world premiere of “2 Moon Smile,” a chamber opera by Australian composer Padma Newsome.

Performances take place on Friday, April 7 at the Rochester Federated Church in Rochester and Saturday, April 8 at the York Street Meeting House in Lyndon.

The music draws on classical and folk, minimalism and aria traditions. Chamber music for voice, clarinet, FRIDAY APRIL bassoon and piano is juxtaposed with dance music Rochester Federated Church performed by electric guitar, drums, fiddle and keyboard. The production brings together Heliand Consort, the Vermont based classical chamber music group and Clogs, a pioneering new music and improvising quartet which brings an electroacoustic element to the opera. Dancers Susannah Keebler and Clare Byrne add visual flair in the episodic dance suites.

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“This is not an opera in the conventional sense,” Newsome said. “I’m calling it a p’opera because it’s not so formal — just a collection of songs, chamber music and dances strung loosely together by an innate narrative. It’s somewhere between a Medieval masque and a troubadour show.”

The libretto, also by Newsome, is an allegory about love, war and healing.

Soprano Mary Bonhag sings the role of Pink Lycra, the opera’s charismatic leader whose prophetic vision draws people to her.

“Padma’s writing draws on the strengths of both ensembles,” bassoonist Rachael Elliott said, who is a founding member of Heliand Consort and Clogs. “Heliand Consort is a classical group, while Clogs primarily performs its own music, much of it developed through improvisation and jam sessions.”

Heliand Consort has long championed Newsome’s music, which has lyrical and romantic sensibilities, and subtly complex rhythmic underpinnings.

The group includes several of his pieces among their repertoire. In 2012, together with director Susanne Peck, they premiered Newsome’s “With Eyes Cast Down” for bassoon, women’s choir and piano, with support from the Rochester Chamber Music Society.

“Producing the chamber opera is an ambitious project for us because of its large scope, with nine performers,” said Elliott.

“2 Moon Smile” has been many years in development, starting with a commission by Sue Newsome, the composer’s sister and a Sydney-based clarinetist, for whom he wrote three pieces for baritone, clarinet and piano.

“I had two lucid dreams in which the plot, the characters and excerpts of music were played to me, as well as a bunch of artifacts, prophecies and poems,” Newsome said.

Since then, the composer has written songs and pieces for the opera, as they come to him. In 2015, Heliand Consort and Mary Bonhag gave a sneak preview of the opening of the opera.

Then, in late 2016, Heliand Consort and Clogs teamed up on a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise the funds needed to produce the chamber opera.

“More than 80 people donated to the project, from all over the world,” Heliand Consort’s pianist, Cynthia Huard said. “We were astounded by the support, and are grateful to everyone for helping to make this project a reality.”

Newsome said he enjoys toying around with expectations, and breaking down the invisible boundary between performers and audience. In “2 Moon Smile,” the audience is an integral part of the show, at times encouraged to sing and dance, along with the performers.

The April 7 show in Rochester and the April 8 show in Lyndon begin at 7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 7. Admission is by donation. For more info, visit heliandconsort.org or call (802) 735-3611.

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IN TOWN One night only: Samuel Beckett’s ‘Molloy’

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are St Lazare Ireland ― an Irish theater company led by husband-wife team Conor and Judy Lovett ― celebrates 20 years of touring Beckett’s prose internationally with a revival of “Molloy.” The couple will perform the first solo show of this tour on the Vermont Coffee SUNDAY APRIL Company’s stage at Vermont Coffee Company, 1197 Exchange Street in Middlebury Middlebury at 7:30 p.m. this Sunday evening.

and “The End” by Samuel Beckett at the Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse. They got a return invitation and will present “Molloy” this weekend.

“It’s a gorgeous place and the people there have been very welcoming,” said Lovett, “and the coffee’s the best.”

The Lovetts hope to make Middlebury a regular stop. This year they will be giving a master class at Middlebury College, where some of the students are preparing a production of “Waiting For Godot.”

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Molloy, a crippled tramp, recounts an attempt to visit his aged mother. Along his route he is apprehended by the police for indecently resting on his bicycle. Shortly after his release from the police station he encounters an old woman and her dog, with dire consequences for the latter. “Molloy” is one of Beckett’s most poignant and arresting characters. His view of society, and the world, is as funny as it is true.

Conor Lovett will play Molloy this Sunday in Middlebury.

“We first performed in Vermont in 2010 when Jay Craven of Kingdom County Productions brought us to St. Johnsbury, and the following year we played Burlington and Lyndonville,” Conor Lovett explained. While in Lyndonville, the Lovetts met Deb Gwinn and Paul Ralston of Vermont Coffee Company. “She and Paul liked what they saw...

They’ve become great supporters of our work.”

Last fall, Gare St Lazare performed “First Love”

Among the foremost theater interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work, with particular emphasis on his non-theater writings, Gare St Lazare Ireland has a repertory of over 17 Beckett titles and has toured to over 80 cities in 25 countries worldwide. The New York Times calls Gare St Lazare, “The unparalleled Beckett champions.”

To get a seat at this Sunday’s free show, email playhouse@vermontcoffeecompany.com. Space is limited. For more info call (802) 398-2776.

A tribute to ‘The Doors’ benefits local fundraiser Next Thursday, April 13, Middlebury’s Marquis Theater will present “End of The Night — A Tribute to the Music of The Doors” to benefit a fundraising drive spearheaded by Silver Maple Construction’s Sean Flynn. Watch Vermont Allstars Josh Panda, Clint Bierman, Tyler Mast and Sean Preece channel “The Doors” on the big stage, and help raise funds

for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS).

In memory of Flynn’s father, grandmother, aunt and others who have fallen to leukemia and lymphoma, Flynn and friends have begun a fundraising drive to assist research into viable cancer cures.

In addition to the Marquis fundraiser,

Flynn is part of a team that plans to complete a 100-mile bike ride in Lake Tahoe on June 4. “Team Jack” is accepting donations online via its LLS “Team in Training” webpage in honor of the many people who continue to fight and survive their battle with leukemia and lymphoma.

“The Marquis is proud to support Sean Flynn’s effort to raise money

for LLS. It will be a great night for a very worthy cause,” Marquis’ owner Ben Wells said.

Doors open at 7 p.m. Music from 8-10 p.m. A portion of the $10 cover will benefit LLS. Tickets available at the door or in advance at Eventbrite.

To make a donation to Flynn’s LLS “Team in Training” page, visit: www. teamintraining.org.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK CALL FOR EXHIBIT PROPOSALS Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon is seeking innovative work for solo and/or group exhibits from artists working in a variety of media.

Curators and both emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply. Site-specific work/installations will also be considered. This is a rolling open call for exhibits to begin in fall 2017.

Further information, including a sample exhibit contract and submission guidelines, can be found at www.cmacvt.org.

SARAH BLACKER AND AARON KATZ AT BRANDON MUSIC Sarah Blacker and Aaron Katz will perform new music at Brandon SATURDAY APRIL Music on Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Blacker, a singer-songwriter, is a Brandon Music favorite. Katz is a percussionist with the national band Percy Hill. Together the two artfully span rock, pop, indie-folk and Americana. For info call (802) 247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net.

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CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN Garden Brothers Circus will come to the Memorial Sports Center in Middlebury on Wednesday, April 12. See live WEDNESDAY APRIL elephants, motorcycle daredevils, Chinese Acrobats, the Human Slingshot, racing camels, crazy comedy with circus clowns, aerialists and other cirque artists.

Two showtimes: 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Visit www.

GardenBrosCircus.com for info and tickets.

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OFF THE WALL: INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT ART IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 7, 12:15 p.m. Mahaney Center for the Arts and Museum, Room 125, Middlebury College. Take a closer look at an object from the museum’s collection with the Robert F. Reiff Intern, then enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders.

WORKSHOP VISIT IN NORTH FERRISBURGH SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2 P.M., 240 Lewis Creek Dr. The Ferrisburgh Historical Society will visit the workshop of master craftsman Craig Farrow for a talk and demonstration of his craft. Free.

“ART OF THE WORLD” IN BRISTOL FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 6-7:30 P.M., Art on Main. A new exhibit will higlight by New Haven artists Jane Ploughman of Ploughgirl Press and John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press. A poetry reading will precede the opening.

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SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: INTAGLIO PRINTS IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, April 11, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Johnson Memorial Building, Mezzanine, Middlebury College. Students present their new work from Hedya Klein’s class ART315, exploring traditional and contemporary methods of printmaking. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free.

OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 14, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater. Artists’ reception for painter Fred Lower.

TWIST O’ WOOL SPINNING GUILD MEETING. Wednesday, April 12, 7 p.m., 49 Wilson Road.

There will be a general meeting and show and tell, followed by a session on Portuguese Knitting.

All are welcome. Questions call 453-5960.

FACULTY DANCE CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 6, 8 p.m. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theater, Middlebury College.

One night only! The Dance Program spotlights samples of faculty choreography, featuring works

by Gabriel Forestieri, Scotty Hardwig, Paloma McGregor, Maree ReMalia and Lida Winfield.

Tickets: public $12, college ID holders $10, students $6.

DANCE MASTER CLASS WITH ELLEN SMITH AHERN ‘05 IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 12, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Middlebury College alumna Ellen Smith Ahern ‘05 has worked professionally with a diverse array of artists, including Jane Comfort, Tiffany Rhynard, Polly Motley, Paul Besaw and Lida Winfield, all of whom have shaped her understanding of dance as a means of communication and connection Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 13, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125. Anne Goodyear, co-director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, will present an illustrated lecture titled “This is a Portrait if I Say So.”

FILM “SON OF SAUL” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 8, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College.

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival by trying to salvage the body of a boy he takes for his son. “No matter how many

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Holocaust films you’ve seen, you’ve not seen one like this.” — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times.

In Polish and German with English subtitles.

Sponsored by the Holocaust Film Fund. (László Nemes, Hungary, 2015, 107 minutes) Free.

FREE SHOWING OF “MOANA” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 15, 3pm, 109 Catamount Park (off Exchange St.) Sponsored by the Counseling Service of Addison County.

“WEINER” DOCUMENTARY IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 15, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. An examination of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s second fall from grace-during his 2013 mayoral campaign. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. Free.

LECTURE MIDDLEBURY GARDEN CLUB LECTURE IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, April 11, 1 p.m., Residence at Otter Creek. Speakers from Bartlett Tree Works will present a program on “Growing Trees and Shrubs in the Vermont Landscape.” The program will include: planting trees, root development and some special Vermont plants. This program is open to the public and qualifies for Master Gardeners hours.

AUTHOR TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, April 11, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Middlebury College, Axinn 219. Author and explorer Brooke Williams will talk about discovering our role in evolution with references to his new book, “Open Midnight: Where Wilderness and Ancestors Meet” (Trinity University Press). Brooke’s life has been one of adventure and wilderness exploration. His conservation career spans thirty years, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and he has an MBA in sustainable business.

ARTIST TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 12, noon, Sheldon Museum. The Sheldon Museum will present photographer and art historian Kirsten Hoving and sculptor and photographer Eric Nelson who will discuss “The Lure of the Object.” Their work is included in the “Focus on the Sheldon: A Five-Point Perspective” exhibit.

For more information on the exhibit visit www. henrysheldonmuseu.org or call 388-2117.

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13, 4:30 p.m. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Visiting Lecturer in Dance Lida Winfield and alumna Ellen Smith Ahern ‘05 will discuss their creative process, welcome questions, and perform excerpts of their duet “Long Gone.”.

Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free.

MUSIC NOONDAY CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 6, 2017, 12:25 p.m., St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury. Ute Marks, violinist, and her accompanist George Matthew Jr. will play works

by Vivaldi and Telemann. Free and open to the public.

ADAM BOYCE WILL PERFORM “THE OLD COUNTRY FIDDLER: CHARLES ROSS TAGGART, VERMONT’S TRAVELING ENTERTAINER” IN HANCOCK. Friday, April 7, 11 a.m., Quin-Town Center for Seniors. The talk is free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabilities.

Following the talk, the center will be serving lunch. RSVP to 802-767-3763 to make reservation.

For more information, contact Jill Jesso-White at 802-767-4128.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 7, 7 p.m., Middlebury Union High School Auditorium. Come hear Copeland, Tchaikovsky and Mancini, among others. Conducted by Catherine Ott. Free and open to the public.

BRITISH PIANIST PAUL LEWIS PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 7, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. British pianist Paul Lewis will perform a classical concert of works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Weber.

Concertgoers are invited to gather in the Mahaney Center for the Arts lobby for a seasonal preperformance dinner at 6:30 p.m. The catered buffet is seated family style. Dinner tickets $30.

Cash bar. Concert tickets $25/20/6. Info: www. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“2 MOON SMILE” IN ROCHESTER. Friday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., Rochester Federated Church. Heliand Consort and Clogs will premier “2 Moon Smile,” a new chamber opera by Australian composer Padma Newsome. Doors open at 7 p.m. Admission by donation.

JAZZ QUINTET IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 8, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall, Middlebury College. The Miles Donahue Quartet with special guest Billy Pierce will perform in celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month. Free and open to the public.

THE WILL PATTON ENSEMBLE IN LINCOLN. Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. The cost is $10 for adults, teens and kids are free. Refreshments will be served. For more information call 388-6863.

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SUTHERLAND IN BRISTOL. Sunday, April 9, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Holley Hall. A celebration of Pete’s contributions to Vermont’s cultural heritage.

Music by Nate Gusakov, Jamie Masefield, Caleb Elder & friends; tributes by friends and fellow musicians; refreshments and Vermont Folk Rocker Raffle Drawing. Free. For more information visit 5townfriendsofthearts.org.

Church, 3 Main St. Middlebury. St. Stephen’s Lenten Concert Series continues with organist George Matthew Jr., playing Orgelgebet. Works of Philip G. Kreckel, Jeanne Demessieux, Paul J. Sifler and Kevin Uppercue will be performed. Free and open to the public. Contact: ststephensmiddlebury@gmail.com or call 802388-7200.

EINE KLEINE NACHMITTAGMUSIK: “A LITTLE AFTERNOON MUSIC” IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 9, 2 p.m., Le Chateau Grand Salon, Middlebury College. Gloria Breck ‘18, a piano student of Diana Fanning, presents pieces by Bach, Beethoven and Kabalevsky, as well as platters of Dolci delights. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free.

CONCERT OF PASSION MUSIC FOR GOOD FRIDAY IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday April 14, 7 p.m., St Stephen’s Church. The program includes three arias from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion: “Erbarme dich mein Gott,” sung by Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer; “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,” sung by Sheerya Shivers; and “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein,” sung by Jack DesBois. The program also includes a number of Bach Passion chorales sung by the St. Stephen’s Choir and friends. Organist George Matthew, Jr. will play chorale preludes by Bach based on the chorales sung by the choir.

Free and open to the public.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WINDS ENSEMBLE SPRING CONCERT IN BRISTOL. Sunday, April 9, 4 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School Auditorium. Come hear Copeland, Tchaikovsky and Mancini, among others. Conducted by Catherine Ott. Free and open to the public.

FREE MUSIC PERFORMANCE IN MIDDLEBURY. April 10, 1 p.m., Eastview at Middlebury. Jack DesBois (Bass) and Gareth Cordery (Piano) will perform a half-hour program of piano and vocal music in observance of Holy Week, including pieces by Johannes Brahms (Vier ernste Gesänge - Four Serious Songs) and JS Bach (selections from the St Matthew Passion).

SPRING PIANO RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall, Middlebury College. The annual spring recital by students of Diana Fanning — a showcase for some of Middlebury College’s most talented piano students. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free.

LENTEN CONCERT SERIES IN MIDDLEBURY. April 13, 12:15 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal

INTERNATIONAL PIANIST CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center. Acclaimed and celebrated Scottish concert pianist Murray McLachlan will perform the first recital on a class 1915 Steinway piano recently donated to the Compass Music and Arts Foundation by the estate of the late New York jazz musician John Fischer. Tickets $20; dinner $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Call 802-247-4295, email info@cmacvt.org or visit www.cmacvt.org.

POETRY POETRY READING IN BRISTOL. Friday, April 7, 6-7:30 p.m., Art on Main. Five local poets, Karla Van Vliet, Jon Turner, Basha Miles, Rachael Baird and Elyssa Cobb, will read from their poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Refreshments and conversation will follow.

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live music BAD SMELL. Friday April 7, 8 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

FULL SHARE. Friday April 7, 7-9 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

SARAH BLACKER. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 7:30 P.M., BRANDON MUSIC. TWIST OF FATE. Saturday April 8, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

JEFF SALISBURY BAND. Friday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

MYRA FLYNN TRIO. Saturday, April 15, 7 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLE. Friday April 21, 8 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

ERIN CASSELLS-BROWN TRIO. Friday April 28, 7:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

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Meet the farmer

Alessandra Rellini from Agricola Farm in Panto

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lessandra Rellini always wanted to raise her own animals. So when this Italian native was recruited by the University of Vermont to teach in the Psychology Department, she saw an opportunity to pursue her farming dream in the Green Mountain State.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

“The opportunity allowed me to cultivate the idea of raising my own animals and doing my own butchering,” she said in an interview at the end of March. “But then things spiraled out EVERY PIG of control.”

find the cuts of meat that I wanted and the taste was just not the same,” she explained.

So, what else was there to do?

With a few trips home to Italy to learn about the way pigs were raised and how to develop good flavor, Rellini has crafted her own technique and lifestyle to create a superior taste and farm-way-oflife.

“Everything we do on this farm is for the fat,” she said. “Because the fat is the most important part for the flavor... The lard has to be either snow white or have just a hint of pink — absolutely no yellow.”

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HAS A “SWEET-SPOT” — A TICKLISH PLACE THEY LOVE TO HAVE RUBBED. IF YOU FIND IT, THE PIG WILL FLOP OVER ON IT’S BACK. THEY CALL IT “FLIPPING THE PIG” ON AGRICOLA FARM.

She started with three little pigs...

Now, 11 years later, Rellini has 90 pigs, a flock of chickens and upwards of 27 Icelandic sheep.

With the help of Stefano Pinna, Andrew Sheets, Tirragen Vixie, Drew Anderson, Rellini and her daughter Eva, Agricola Farm offers meat and homemade pasta CSAs; a farm store with meats, pastas, and other local products; monthly authentic Italian lunches and dinners; and local butchering. If that’s not enough to keep someone busy, Rellini has maintained her fulltime job at UVM since moving to Vermont in 2006.

Why go to all the trouble of farming? Well, Rellini was missing the flavors of home. “It was hard to

Pinna, an Italian agronomist, came to the farm two years ago and is in charge of the crop rotation for grazing.

He plants the food the animals eat, and since you are what you eat, some might say Pinna is the flavor-master.

Rellini said her pigs eat about 30 percent of their diet in the fields.

“It’s taken us 10 years to figure it out,” Rellini said of the pigs’ diet.

“The Italian diet didn’t work for our pigs... we did a lot of exploration.”

From about May to December the pigs are out on pasture, eating a mixture of field greens, sorghum, rye, barley, oats, wheat, leftover fruits and veggies from Tomgirl Juice of Burlington, spent grains from distillers and brewers, and Myer’s Bagels from Burlington.

Every three to four days, the pigs are rotated to different fields.

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Alessandra Rellini is the owner of Agricola Farm in Panton, where she and her farmhands raise pig chickens and sheep. The farm also offers a pasta and bread CSA, and monthly meals.

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Recipe from Alessandra Rellini

INGREDIENTS: 1 lb Agricola sausages 2 garlic cloves 1 yellow onion 10 or 12 small basil leaves

8 medium-sized fresh tomatoes, or 1 can of crushed tomatoes 3 Portobello mushroom hats 2 spoons extra virgin olive oil 4 oz of good chianti

DIRECTIONS:

squares.

If you’re using fresh tomatoes, blanche, peel them and cut them in quarters Peel and cut the onions in 1 inch strips about 1/3 inch wide. Peel the garlic and smash it using the flat part of the knife. Remove the sausage from the refrigerator and let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Remove casing.

Once the meat is cooked (no longer pink), add the wine and turn the heat up to high. Mix occasionaly. Allow all the alcohol to evaporate.

Sauté the onions and garlic in a medium size sauce pot at medium/ low temperature. Once the onions are transparent remove the large chunks of garlic and put the sausages in the pot and break them with a wooden spoon.

Cook on low heat and allow the fat to melt in the pot.

Add the tomatoes. If you are using fresh tomatoes add the chunks of tomatoes, a pinch of sugar and 4 ounces of water.

If you are using the canned tomatoes just poor the can in. Add a little salt. Let simmer at low heat for 40 to 50 minutes.

During the last 5 minutes cut the 12 basil leaves with your fingers and mix into the sauce. Salt and pepper to taste.

Place sauce on top of the spaghetti and garnish with remaining basil.

Clean the hat of the mushrooms with a damp paper towel and cut into ¾ inch

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Add the mushrooms. Turn down the heat to medium and cook until most of the water has evaporated.

Because of this unique diet, Rellini’s pigs grow slower than conventional pigs fattened on corn and soy. This means they take longer (more than 14 months) to grow to full weight.

“It’s a more mature meat and flavor,” she said. “It’s not as sweet and is very complex.”

When the pigs are ready to be butchered, Rellini takes them to the Mad River Food Hub — a USDA facility in Waitsfield — where she rents space to butcher her own product. The cuts are sold to individuals directly, to local chefs and in the Panton farm store.

Though the land at 2674 Jersey St. has been in farming since the 1800s, Rellini and Agricola Farm have only been in the Panton community for two years.

Prior to that, they were located in Williston, Monkton and Hinesburg.

“There’s great support from the town and community here. People call us the farm with the pigs outside,” Rellini laughed. Sometimes her pigs — or sheep, or chickens — take a little extra freedom and mosey out of their area.

But Rellini has it under control with the help of her farm assistants and neighbors.

To learn more about Agricola Farm’s products, CSA or upcoming events, visit www. agricolavermont.com.

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Fri 4/7 6pm doors/7pm film $15 advance/$17 @ door

FLY FISHING FILM TOUR 2017

A one of a kind experience – films from around the world. This 11th Annual lineup is the finest yet with fish tales from Siberia, Idaho, Mexico, Florida, Kamehatka, Alaska, Montana & more!

All profits go to the New Haven River Anglers Association.

Advance: Middlebury Mountaineer, 56 Main St., 802-388-7245

Thu 4/13 – Sat 4/15 8pm $14/ $12 MC Staff/ $6 Students MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSICAL PLAYERS

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Delightful Tony Award-winning Musical Comedy w/ an interactive twist! PG-13 due to certain crude humor & sexual content.

For tickets call Middlebury College Box Office 443-MIDD (6433)

Tue 4/18 7pm $15

LAKOU MIZIK

WITH OPENING BAND MOGANI

From elder legends to rising young talents from across Haiti, this multigenerational collective is united in a mission to honor their culture with pride, strength and hope. Formed after the 2010 earthquake, the group inspires & honors a healing spirit.

Thu 4/20 7pm $17/$10 Students THE NATIONAL THEATRE IN HD

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

An all-star cast, including Daniel Radcliffe, star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliant & brilliantly funny modern classic -- from London’s Old Vic!

Fri 4/21 7:30pm $15

DEB BRISSON & THE HAY BURNERS

Deb’s soulful, rootsy, bluesy vocals are backed-up by local legends Mark Pelletier, Peter Ryan, John Wallace and Doug Wilhelm. Superb quintet will rock you with heartfelt alt country originals.

Sat 4/22 12:30pm $24/$10 Students MET LIVE IN HD

EUGENE ONEGIN

Tchaikovsky’s beloved interpretation of Pushkin’s classic tale of love and loss. Free pre-show talk by Douglas Anderson in the studio at 11:45

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Downsizing? Do you have something wonderful sitting in a corner gathering dust? The THT auction plays a major role in supporting the wide range of events and educational opportunities at THT. On-line auction begins on May 15. The festive live auction is June 17. To make a donation, call 802 388-1436 or email executivedirector@townhalltheater.org

EXHIBITS AMERICAN FACES: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY. On exhibit Feb. 17-April 30 featuring 90 portraits from more than 20 collections exploring why Americans have been fascinated with images of themselves. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 4435007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 4435007.

ART OF THE WORD. On exhibit April 7, featuring work by New Haven artists Jane Ploughman of Ploughgirl Press, and John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press. An opening reception on Friday, April 7, will highlight poetry readings from five local poets, 6-7:30 p.m. Art on Main, 25 Main Street, Bristol. (802) 238-607.

DICK KIRBY: METAL MADNESS. On exhibit March 3-April 30, featuring a one-man show of artist-designed steel works such as lamps, weathervanes, candle holders and coat racks. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

FOCUS ON THE SHELDON: A FIVE-POINT PERSPECTIVE. On exhibit March 7-May 13, featuring five Middlebury-area photographers’ exploration of the collections of the Henry Sheldon Museum.

Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

GLASS ART: MOLTEN COLOR AND FROZEN FORMS. On exhibit March 24-May 7, featuring kiln formed glass sculpture by Alyssa Oxley; handblown glass by Bud Shriner; and kilnformed glass jewelry and objects

by Micaela Wallace. The exhibit also includes work by emerging glass artists Anne Hulvey, Mary Ellen Jeffries, Cherie Marshall, Lori Pietropaoli and Christie Witters. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main Street, Vergennes.

(802) 877-3850 or www.creativespacegallery.org.

GRACE MELLOW: NOT FOR SHOW. On exhibit March 2-April 9 featuring Grace Mellow’s gouache and pastel experimental figurative drawings.

Northern Daughters Gallery, 221 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or www.northerndaughters.com.

RE-IMAGINE THE BRAIDED RUG. On exhibit, Feb. 4-April 29, featuring the work of West Fairlee rug braider Delsie Hoyt. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or www. vermontfolklifecenter.org.

FRED LOWER, PAINTINGS. On exhibit, April 7-May 11, featuring the Fred Lower’s landscapes of Addison County. An artist’s reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, April 14, 5-7 p.m. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

UNTOUCHED BY TIME: THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM PERICLES TO PARR. On exhibit Jan. 10-April 23, featuring early archaeological publications, antiquarian paintings, drawings and prints, as well as photographs, books, and more recent images that are all drawn from collections at Middlebury. Together they bear testimony to the fascination with the Acropolis that has prevailed from the Enlightenment to the present. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

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rt on Main in Bristol presents a new exhibit “Art of the Word,” featuring work by New Haven artists Jane Ploughman of Ploughgirl Press, and John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press. The exhibit will open Friday, April 7, with a reception and poetry readings from 6-7:30 p.m.

Vincent designs and creates visually engaging posters, broadsides and cards, using antique, foot and hand powered printing presses. He handsets wood or metal type with images he carves from linoleum, wood and other materials.

Vincent’s work often features quotes from other writers that he hopes will raise questions in the viewers’ mind and encourage them to think critically rather than simply being “for or against.”

Ploughman creates beautiful artist books and handmade journals using unique papers and structures that incorporate decorative elements and a wide range of bookbinding techniques. Her artist books include a range of printmaking techniques including mono prints, letterpress, and linoleum cuts. The exhibit will include a portion of her 365 “make a book a day for a year” project.

In honor of National Poetry Month, five local poets will read during the opening reception on Friday. Karla Van Vliet, Basha Miles and Rachel Baird of ARTSight, Elissa Cobb from Yarn and Yoga and Jon Turner of Wild Roots Farm will read selected works.

For more information call (802) 453-4032 or visit artonmain.net.

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“WHY POETRY MATTERS” TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 12, 10:3011:30 a.m., Ilsley Public Library. Jay Parini will read from and discuss his most recent work.

READING AUTHOR READING IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 8, 4 p.m., Vermont Book Shop. Harriett Scott Chessman will present her new book, “The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas” in conversation with John Elder. Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.

BRIDPORT BOOK CLUB MEETING IN BRIDPORT. Wednesday, April 12, 7 p.m., Bridport Highway Department conference room, Crown Point Road at Short Street. The group will discuss “David Copperfield,”

by Charles Dickens. All interested readers welcome.

Call 758-2858 for more information. Next month’s title is “Barkskins” by Annie Proulx.

SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES SECOND ANNUAL LOCAL GAME DINNER AT TOURTERELLE IN NEW HAVEN. Thursday, April 6, 6:30 p.m., Tourterelle Restaurant. Enjoy a night of local game by hunters across the county, along with drinks and stories from seasons past. Live music by Brisson Boss & Pelletier. Reservations suggested. Suggested donation $40 per person or $20 per person if you donate three to four pounds of game. Info: www.tourterellevt.com.

THEATER “ARCADIA” PRODUCTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 6 and Friday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 8, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College. This play by Tom Stoppard is a compelling blend of science, mathematics, literature and landscape architecture; the magnetic force connecting them is sex, “the attraction that Newton left out.” Featuring Associate Professor of Theatre Alex Draper ‘88; directed by Cheryl Faraone. Tickets: $12/10/6; on sale March 20.

SAMUEL BECKETT’S “MOLLOY” IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 9, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Gare St. Lazare Ireland celebrates 20 years of touring Beckett’s prose internationally with a revival of their first solo show. One night only performance. You will need a ticket to reserve your seat. Email your ticket request to: playhouse@ vermontcoffeecompany.com.

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Jane Ploughman creates handmade journals and books. See her and John Vincent’s work on display at Art on Main in Bristol. An opening reception with poetry readings will be held this Friday evening.

FREE, EIGHT-WEEK MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP IN VERGENNES. Thursday, April 6, 6-8 p.m., Bixby Memorial Free Library, 258 Main Street. Thinking about writing your own memoir? Now’s the time to do it. Join MFA graduate Kris Johannesson as she teaches you essential tips and techniques to form your own memoir. Pre-registration required. Call, stop in, or email muir.haman@bixbylibrary.org.

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the movie T2 TRAINSPOTTING — RUNNING TIME: 1:54 — RATING: R T2 Trainspotting hands movie critics a genuine dilemma. As a follow-up to a very popular first version of 20 years ago, it makes us wonder about the makeup of the audiences that loved T1 back then. Since I didn’t see that one, I can’t indulge in comparisons of the two, so here goes a shot at T2 which is already drawing appreciative audiences. I am not among them.

So there I was at T2 meeting four thoroughly unlikable characters. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) has returned to a shabby part of Scotland where he and three friends grew up together and came unglued after Renton ripped off his buddies. Sick Boy Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) is a cocaine addict who runs an escort business with his partner Veronica (Anjela Nedyalkora). Spud (Ewen Bremmer) is a physical and emotional wreck of a man who loves to write. A furious Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is serving a long jail term.

All of them are drug addicts. Most speak in a Scottish accent so heavy that they are unintelligible to some English speakers. You will have a tough time understanding more than a few words in every sentence. That alone renders the plot impossible to understand. We are dealing with unintelligible, middle-aged, drug addicted crooks. But wait; there’s more.

Every few minutes — even when they are being civil to each other — they burst into physical violence as they beat their buddies with anything that’s at hand. Anything sharp or hard — a loose toilet, a shovel, is swung and knocks the victim down in a bloody mess. Even opening an ice box door is a violent act. These were friends just a minute ago and will be again. If you figure that one out, please let me know.

As Begbie breaks out of jail, he thrills to the news that Renton, who cheated him out of big bucks, is back in town and vows revenge. So in addition to the rage that erupts when any two of the four get together, we watch the rotten Begbie find joy in hanging an old pal from a barn beam.

Spoken words are lost not just in the heavy accents but also in the loud, howling, snarls that envelop all conversation. Their snarls aren’t the dumb

Ewen Bremner in T2 Trainspotting (2017).

but simple repetitive four letter words we Americans use but base line scatological ugliness. Our swearing sounds like golden peace offerings by comparison.

But there is a good side. Director Danny Boyle has used a master’s touch to make this violence into a visual feast. Filmed in dark, sharp tones and set to a loud score, everything moves at a racer’s pace. We’re too scared to be bored. And so here comes the old question of what kinds of people will fill the theaters for T2. Perhaps some kind soul who appreciates unintelligible dialogue, drug addiction, betrayal, physical violence, and general cruelty will call me to explain those joys.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book AMERICAN WAR — BY OMAR EL AKKAD (Knopf Publishing Group)

In the American future envisioned in this novel, the Second American Civil War has already taken place and it also appears to be a battle between the South and the North. Sara T. Chestnut, who becomes Sarat, is happy living next to the Mississippi Sea, exploring the wild areas around her house. Her father is killed and the family is forced to move to a refugee camp and forge a life inside the camp as it appears there will not come a day when they will be released.

Residents of the camp are still allegiant, to varying degrees, to the Free Southern State where the Chestnuts used to live and they face numerous threats for that allegiance. Primary source texts — textbook excerpts, government reports, notebooks, letters, etc. — enhance the personal story of Sarat and her family, and also help explain the motivation for the war. People, including Sarat, are motivated by personal beliefs as well as religion and politics. This could be a cautionary tale about a world torn apart by war in the late twenty-first century, and a girl caught up in a revolution. ― Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

BOOKS TO GET YOU IN THE GARDEN Compact Farms, by Josh Volk Gardening with Chickens,

by Lisa Steele The Thoughtful Gardener,

by Jinny Blom 101 Organic Gardening Hacks,

by Shawna Coronado The Bee-Friendly Garden,

by Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhn Big Dreams, Small Garden,

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MUSIC Paul Lewis returns to Middlebury for concert

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British pianist Paul Lewis is recognized worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his generation; he has also become an audience favorite right here in Middlebury. He will return to the Robison Hall stage on Friday, April 7, to perform a beautiful classical concert of works by FRIDAY APRIL Bach, Beethoven, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Chopin and Weber.

Arts at Steinway’s Astoria, N.Y. factory in 2013.

This concert is presented as part of the Paul Nelson Chamber Music Series, named after the Performing Arts Series’ director emeritus.

This is only fitting, as Nelson has called Lewis “one of the happiest discoveries” of his presenting career.

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Fourteen years ago, the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series was the first presenting organization in the U.S. to invite Lewis to perform. Since then, he has earned accolades worldwide, returning often to Middlebury for season after season of astonishing performances, including a highly-acclaimed eight-concert cycle of all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.

Lewis’ program for this spring’s concert at

British pianist Paul Lewis will perform at the Mahaney Center for the Arts April 7. Photo Josep Molina

Middlebury will feature Bach’s Partita No. 1 in B-flat major; Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major; three Chopin waltzes, and Weber’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in A-flat major. Lewis will perform on the Steinway concert grand piano he helped select for the Mahaney Center for the

Concertgoers are invited to gather in the Mahaney Center for the Arts lobby for a delicious, seasonal pre-performance dinner at 6:30 p.m. This catered buffet meal is seated family style. Dinner tickets are $30; cash bar.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m., in the Robison Concert Hall of the Mahaney Center for the Arts in Middlebury. Assigned seating tickets are $25 for the general public; $20 for Middlebury College ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more information, or to purchase tickets, call (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or visit www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Will Patton Ensemble jazzes up the Lincoln stage The Will Patton Ensemble will perform this Saturday for the Lincoln Music Series at Burnham Hall. Will Patton, David Gusakov, Clyde Stats and Dono Schabner have been playing their spirited stew of world music around the Northeast and beyond for over 18 years. Drawing from Gypsy jazz, be-bop, swing and Brasilian choro styles, they create an improvisatory dialogue rich in melodic and harmonic invention.

Catch this group for a lively evening on Saturday at Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. in Lincoln. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for adults; teens and kids are free. Refreshments will be served, so save room for something sweet. For more info, call (802) 388-6863.

WILL PATTON Will Patton has played his music all over the world, from Key West to Fairbanks, Ala., and from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. His collaborations with the manouche guitarist Ninine Garcia

SATURDAY 8 APRIL Burnham Hall, Lincoln

from Paris, documented in the CDs “Peripherique” and “String Theory” have been enthusiastically reviewed both in the U.S. and abroad. He teaches jazz mandolin at Jay Ungar and Molly Mason’s Ashokan Camp and traditional music at the Northern Heritage Music Camp. He has also taught at the Django in June Festival, Northern Lights Festival and others.

His bands have shared the stage with performers such as Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Toots Thielemans and Van Morrison.

During the last 20 years he has been visiting and playing in Paris, and his collaborations with legendary gypsy guitarist Ninine Garcia as documented on his recordings have received critical acclaim both in the U.S. and abroad. He has also had a lifelong passion for Brazilian music, exploring the roots music known as choro, featuring eloquent Portuguese melodies set against a harmonic backdrop of American

jazz and propelled by the powerful rhythms of Brazil.

DAVID GUSAKOV Violinist David Gusakov’s lifetime career has ranged from classical, as a member of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra since 1973, to hard driving Bluegrass with Pine Island and Banjo Dan and The Midnight Plowboys. He has performed with such luminaries as Vassar Clemens, Emmylou Harris, Peter Rowan and John Denver. Born in the heartland of America, Gusakov has travelled the world with his fiddle as his passport, and currently teaches music in his Bristol studio.

DONO SCHABNER Dono Schabner was born in Germany and grew up in Pennsylvania and New York. He started playing professionally at age 12 with Italian wedding bands. At 17 he hit the road, playing R&B all over the U.S. and the Caribbean. After many years of travel, he settled near Stowe with his photographer wife, Lauren. He is a

first call guitarist for such bands as Rick and the Ramblers, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, Michele Choiniere and many others. For the last six years he and Patton have been making music in many contexts, and also work as a duo.

CLYDE STATS Clyde Stats has been a professional bassist for over 30 years, and has performed rhythm and blues, funk, bluegrass, and jazz throughout Vermont and New England for the past 21 years. He began his career in Chicago performing with blues greats Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, and Otis Rush He has studied with internationally known jazz bassists George Mraz and Santi Debriano, and has accompanied jazz legends Mose Allison, Bobby Watson, Joshua Redman and James Carter in their Vermont appearances. An active jazz educator, he holds an M.A. in Jazz Studies from Norwich University and teaches courses in jazz and popular music at Johnson State College and the University of Vermont.

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Nursery care provided, high school youth group, meditation group

Victory Baptist Church We are a friendly congregation providing ministry to all ages.

Please join us for a service!

WHEN DO WE MEET? Sunday 9:45 a.m. – Bible Hour Age-divided classes from nursery through college.

Adults have seven classes to choose from.

Sunday 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. – Worship Services Wednesday 6:30 p.m. – AWANA Clubs Kids’ Program for children ages 3 years- 6th grade Ark Preschool-Kindergarten during the school year A local church ministry of Victory Baptist Church • Kids’ program during the summer.

• JaM Sessions for Junior High | Youth Group 180 for Senior High • Prayer & Bible Study for Adults • Nursery provided for infants to 3 years old for all services.

• Deaf interpretation available for all services.

Join us online as we live stream our services at www.victoryvt.org

The Ark is a Monday-Friday academic-based program for 3 year old Preschool, K-4 and K-5. Our program is a State recognized program, subsidy-eligible, and rated with 4 STARS. We offer full-time, half-time and school-plus options, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Summer Adventure Day Camp The Ark offers a summer day camp, 7:30 to 5:00 daily for boys and girls ages 3 years to 10 years. Field trips, swimming, swimming lessons, fishing, crafts, cooking, gardening, games, reading and much more! This year’s theme is “Destination Imagination” and each week we will celebrate imagination through a fun filled summer experience.

Easter Services & Activities Palm Sunday – April 9th 11 a.m. – Free palm crosses.

Saturday – April 15 – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Free Easter Egg Hunt – bring your basket and join us! Crafts, games, snacks, Bible story and HUNDREDS of eggs for a great egg hunt!

Sunday – April 16 – 7:30 a.m. Early Service 9:45 a.m. Bible Hour | 11:00 a.m. Easter morning worship – No evening service.

Vacation Bible School June 19-22 – 9-11 a.m. daily. Deep Sea Discovery theme.

862 US Route 7 | P.O. Box 160 | Vergennes, Vermont 05491 | 802-877-3393 | email: victoryvt@gmail.com | www.victoryvt.org Senior Pastor Tim Taylor - Assistant Pastor Caleb Poissant - Youth & Music Director John Kaufman

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Index:

Brandon Congregational Church…14 Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society… 2 Christian Science Society…7 Congregational Church of Middlebury… 7 First Congregational Church of Cornwall… 9 Memorial Baptist Church…16 Middlebury Friends Meeting, a Welcoming Quaker Community… 6 Middlebury United Methodist Church… 4 New Haven United Reformed Church… 11 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church… 6 Seventh-day Adventist Church… 14 Shoreham Congregational Church… 5 St. Ambrose Catholic Community… 15 St. Bernadette… 3 St. Genevieve… 3 St. Jude the Apostle Roman Catholic Church… 6 St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption… 3 St. Peter’s Catholic Church… 15 St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church… 5 United Church of Lincoln… 7 Vergennes Congregational Church… 14 Vergennes United Methodist Church… 5 Victory Baptist Church… 2 West Addison United Methodist Church… 5 Weybridge Congregational Church… 4

St. Mary’s

St. Genevieve

St. Mary’s 326 College Street, Middlebury VT Mass: Saturday 5:15 pm, Sunday 8 am & 10 am

St. Genevieve 3275 Route 22A, Shoreham, VT Mass: Saturday 7:30 pm • May - October

St. Bernadette

St. Bernadette 9 Crown Point Road, Bridport, VT Mass: Saturday 7:30 pm • November -April

Holy Week Schedule is as follows: Palm Sunday

April 8 - Saturday 5:15 PM - Saint Mary’s, Middlebury 7:30 PM - Saint Bernadette’s, Bridport April 9 - Sunday 8:00 AM - Saint Mary’s, Middlebury 10:00 AM - Saint Mary’s Middlebury

April 13 - Holy Thursday 7:00 PM - Mass of the Lord’s Supper

April 15 - Holy Saturday - Easter Vigil 7:00 PM - Saint Mary’s, Middlebury

April 14- Good Friday 3:00 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7:00 PM - Stations of the Cross

April 16 - Easter Sunday 8:00 AM - Saint Mary’s, Middlebury 9:30 AM - Saint Mary’s, Middlebury 11:00 AM - Saint Genevieve, Shoreham

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WEYBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH United Church of Christ (UCC)

We are an Open & Affirming congregation actively involved in interfaith and ecumenical events and programs in the Middlebury area. We are known for our commitment to social and environmental justice, inspiring worship for all ages, and mission and outreach to serve others in the community, both locally and globally. Community event highlights of the year include our fall chicken pie supper, donuts to go on Green Up Day , and Easter breakfast.

We Worship every Sunday morning at 10 am, with fellowship and refreshments following. On Easter morning we worship at 9am. Prior to worship we gather for our annual Easter Pancake Breakfast, 7 - 8:30am.

As always, all are welcome!

Pastor: Rev. Daniel Cooperrider

Visit us at: weybridgechurch.org.

Weybridge Hill on Weybridge Road, or Rte 23, 3 miles north of Middlebury and 4 miles south of Rte 17 Pastor: Rev. Daniel Cooperrider Church Office: 802-545-2579 Email: pastor.weybridge@gmail.com Address: 2790 Weybridge Road, Weybridge, VT 05753

Though our current brick-and-stone house of worship was built in 1847, this congregation has been worshiping on Weybridge Hill since 1794.

We invite you to come — and celebrate God’s presence, seek God’s word for your life, offer your gifts, and share in a caring and inclusive community of God’s people.

Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors Together with our neighbors we work for social and personal transformation, justice, healing, and peace.

As a reconciling congregation, our intention is to love our neighbor in the Spirit of God’s reconciling love.

MISSIONS

• Bake Sales • Assisting with Community Lunches and Suppers • Volunteering at Charter House • Hosting Monthly Chicken & Biscuit Neighborhood Suppers, Annual Winter Coat Distribution, Annual Trick-Or-Trunk, Biannual Rummage Sales • Supporting HOPE, CVOEO Food Shelf, CROP Walk, MiddSummer Lunch and Recreation, WomenSafe, and more • Supporting United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Chicuque Rural Hospital & Center of Hope in Mozambique

Middlebury United Methodist Church 43 North Pleasant Street, Middlebury Church Office: 802-388-2510 Director of Music & Organist: Dr. Kevin Parizo Coordinating Committee Chair: Don Jochum

Coordinating Pastor and Minister of Congregational Care: Rev. Jill C. Robinson middumc@gmail.com Worship Service Sunday, 10:45am Choir Rehearsal Thursday, 7:00pm

www.umcmiddlebury.org

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Come join our warm, caring fellowship.

Activities: Worship, Music, Second Saturday Suppers, Missions, Women’s Fellowship, Outreach Projects, Community Events

Pastors: Michael Doran Jill C. Robinson 877-3376 Vergennes United Methodist Church Main Street, Vergennes Sunday Worship 10:30 am

www.vergennesumc.net www.westaddisonumc.org

West Addison United Methodist Church Jersey Street, West Addison Sunday Worship 9:00 am

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church Pastor:

Lord’s Day Masses:

Father David G. Cray, S.S.E. 802-425-2253 E-mail: dgcray@gmail.com

Saturday at 4:30 p.m. & Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Saint Jude Church Sunday at 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Weekday Masses:

2894 Spear Street P.O. Box 158 Charlotte, VT 05445 802-425-2637 E-mail: carmel@gmavt.net Website: www.olmcvt.org Established: 1858

Monday & Friday at 8:00 a.m. at Saint Jude Church Tuesday & Thursday at 5:15 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday at 4:00 p.m. at Saint Jude Church and by appointment AA Meeting: Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

Saint Jude the Apostle Roman Catholic Church Pastor:

Weekday Masses:

Father David G. Cray, S.S.E. 802-425-2253 E-mail: dgcray@gmail.com

Monday & Friday at 8:00 a.m. at Saint Jude Church Tuesday & Thursday at 5:15 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

Lord’s Day Masses:

Sacrament of Reconciliation:

Saturday at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Saint Jude Church

Saturday at 4:00 p.m. at Saint Jude Church and by appointment

Sunday at 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

AA Meeting: 10759 Route 116 (P.O. Box 69) Hinesburg, VT 05461 802-482-2290 • E-mail: StJude@gmavt.net Website: www.stjudevt.org

Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

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T he U niTed C hUrCh of L inCoLn 23 QUAKER STREET | LINCOLN, VERMONT

Built in 1863, it was moved to its present site in 1981 serving the community as a United Church for nearly 100 years!

WHO WE ARE As a fellowship of faith centered on the person and the message of Jesus the Christ, we see ourselves as a gathering that fosters relationship with one another and with God, as Jesus has revealed the Divine. We are diverse and yet are one, striving to be God’s witness to Love, Joy and Reconciliation SUNDAY WORSHIP AT 9:45A.M.

Pastor - Rev. David R. Wood | Pastor Emeritus – Rev. W. Ransom Rice, Jr. 802-453-4280 | Email - ucol@gmavt.net | Website – unitedchurchoflincoln.org

The Congregational Church of Middlebury, UCC No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.

Worship Service — Sunday 10:00 Nursery care provided.

Pastor Rev. Andrew Nagy-Benson Education Church School classes (pre-K - 8th) Junior and Senior High Youth Groups Adult Education and Bible Study

Philosophy Our mission is to live as Jesus taught, loving God and loving our neighbors as ourselves.

We are an Open and Affirming congregation.

Active participation in Charter House Coalition’s meal programs and winter shelter.

Music Chancel Choir Bell Choir

2 Main Street, Middlebury

Please join us on Easter!

802-388-7634 • www.midducc.org Office: 27 North Pleasant Street, Middlebury

Christian Science Society, Middlebury P.O. Box 452, Middlebury, VT 05753 History Established in August 1954, the Christian Science Society, Middlebury, is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, MA. It has been holding Sunday and Wednesday services at the Middlebury Community House since its formation.

Purpose To bring to the community an opportunity to learn how spiritual healing is as revelant today as when taught and practiced by Christ Jesus. The Bible is the foundation, with correlated teachings from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Contacts: Sylvia Coffin 453-3439

Worship Services are held at Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour Streets, Sunday at 10 A.M. and the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7:30 P.M. Both services include readings from the Bible and Science and Health, and the Wednesday service includes testimonies of Christian Science healing.

Sunday School for students up to the age 20 is held at 10 A.M. All are warmly welcome to attend both the Sunday morning and Wednesday evening services.

Steve Weber 545-2028

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The Addison Independent prints these free listings on a space-available basis throughout the year. Send new and updated information including schedules, staff, phone numbers, e-mail and Web addresses, to news@ addisonindependent.com, or by mail, fax, or in person to our office. This religious service listing is also online at addisonindependent.com.

Addison ADDISON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH. Addison four corners, routes 22A and 17. The Rev. Stephen Payne, pastor. Worship, 10:30 a.m.

WEST ADDISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. 18 Church St., West Addison, off of Route 17 and Jersey Street. The Rev. Jill Colley Robinson and Rev. Mike Doran. Sunday worship, 9 a.m. During August, the congregation will worship at the Vergennes United Methodist Church at 9 a.m. (802) 877-3376.

Brandon/ Forest Dale BRANDON BAHA’I COMMUNITY. Meets for regular Sunday morning devotions every Sunday at 10 a.m.

For location

information and more, call 247-3919 or 345-0373.

or 453-2614. www.bristolcf.org.

BRANDON BAPTIST CHURCH. Routes 7 and 73 West, Brandon. Sunday services, 11 a.m.; adult and young adult Bible study, 10 a.m.; Sunday school for ages 5 and up. Wednesday prayer and Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Handicap accessible. 247-3339 or www. brandonbaptistchurch.org.

FEDERATED CHURCH OF BRISTOL. The Rev. Bill Elwell, pastor. Sunday worship and K-12 Sunday school, 10:15 a.m., year round. Child care provided. Coffee hour follows service. 453-2321, rescueme97@yahoo.com or www.bristolfederatedchurch.org.

BRANDON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, U.C.C. The “go-to” church on the Brandon green, 1 Carver St., Route 7, P.O. Box 97, Brandon. The Rev. William L. Bartholomew, interim pastor. Sunday worship, 10 a.m. year round; Sunday school, 10 a.m. (October through May); choir, Wednesday, 7 p.m. (September through June). 802-247-6121 (office), 802-745-7515 (pastor’s cell phone) or brandoncongregationalchurch@gmail.com.

BRANDON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Franklin Street. Kenneth Bevan, pastor. Regular worship, 10 a.m., Sunday school every Sunday, 10 a.m. Fellowship hour, 11 a.m. Child care. Holy Communion, first Sunday. 247-6524.

FOREST DALE WESLEYAN CHURCH. 1895 Forest Dale Road, Brandon. The Rev. John McDonald, pastor. Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Growth Groups on Sunday for all ages, 9:45 a.m. Handicap accessible.

247-6748 or ForestDaleWesleyan@gmail.com.

LIFEBRIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 97 Frog Hollow Road (formerly the Neshobe Sportsman Club). Sunday worship, 9:30 a.m.

LifeGroups meet weekly, call for schedule.

247-LIFE (5433). www.lbccvt.com.

LIVING WATER ASSEMBLY OF GOD. 76 North St., Forest Dale. Lewis Butterfield, pastor. Sunday service and children’s church at 10 a.m. 247-4542.

OUR LADY OF GOOD HELP ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (ST. MARY’S). 38 Carver St. Fr. Vincent Onunkwo, Admin. Mass schedule: Saturday, 4 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. Tel: 247-6351.

ST. THOMAS & GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Route 7, Brandon village, corner of Prospect Street.

8 a.m., Holy Eucharist, no music; 10 a.m., Holy Eucharist, family-friendly service with music. Sunday morning program for children preschool and older (during the school year). 247-6759 or www.facebook. com/St.Thomas.Grace.

Bridport BRIDPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. (Conservative Congregational Church Conference). The Rev. Tim Franklin, pastor. Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.; worship service, 10:30 a.m. Coffee hour immediately after service. 758-2227 or www.bridportchurch.com.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRISTOL. Sunday service, 10:15 a.m., Sunday school, 11 a.m.; contact person Deacon Mary Purinton, 453-2551. For special events, visit First Baptist Church, Bristol, VT, on Facebook. A welcoming family-oriented church.

ST. AMBROSE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Fr. Yvon J. Royer, pastor. Saturday, 6:30 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m.

Confessions: Saturday, 6-6:15 p.m.; Sunday, 7-7:45 a.m.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 839 Rockydale Road. Bruce Wilkinson, pastor. Sabbath school, Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; worship, Saturday, 11 a.m.; weekly Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. 453-4712.

TERASEM MOVEMENT TRANSRELIGION. 2 Park Place. Meditation on the Truth of Terasem on the 10th of each month at 10 a.m. Info: www.terasamfaith.net or terasemfaith.org.

Charlotte CHARLOTTE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Church Hill Road. The Rev. Susan Cooke Kittredge, pastor. 10 a.m.: Worship service and Sunday school. 425-3176.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 2894 Spear St. Father David G. Cray. Sunday Mass, 8 and 11 a.m. Weekday Masses, Tuesday and Thursday, 5:15 p.m. AA Meeting, Wednesday, 7 p.m.

802-425-2637, carmel@gmavt.net, www.olmcvt.org.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP. Charlotte Children’s Center, Ferry Road. Child care available. Pat Neal, 425-3136; Diane Butler, 425-2373.

Cornwall FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CORNWALL. Route 30. The Rev. Dr. Mary Kay Schueneman, pastor.

Sunday worship 9:30 a.m., with nursery care and Christian education provided. 462-3111 or cccucc@ shoreham.net.

East Middlebury EAST MIDDLEBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Corner of Routes 125 and 116. Bob Bushman, pastor.

Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors. Sunday worship, 9 a.m.; contemporary service at 10:30 a.m.

Sunday school during 9 a.m. service. 388-7423.

HOPE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP. Bridport Community Hall, 52 Middle Road. Pastor Jeff Kauffman.

Age graded Bible classes, 9 a.m. Second service, 10:30 a.m. Bible studies on Sunday nights. 759-2922 or hopecommunityfellowship.org.

VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH. Routes 7 and 125. Rev. Ed Wheeler. Services on Sundays: Sunday school for all ages, 9:30 a.m. Worship services 10:45 a.m.

(Nursery provided) and 6:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesdays; Youth Group and AWANA meet on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. 388-7137 or valleybiblechurch.us.

ST. BERNADETTE’S / ST. GENEVIEVE’S PARISH. Part of the combined mission of St. Mary’s in Middlebury, offers Mass Saturday, 7:30 p.m., November through April only. St. Genevieve’s in Shoreham has Mass from May through October at 7:30 p.m.

Ferrisburgh FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Route 7, Ferrisburgh, next to the town offices/Grange hall. Parking lot. The Rev. Jill C. Robinson and team. Sunday worship, 9 a.m. 876-7622.

Bristol BRISTOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. Meet at the River, 400 Rocky Dale Road. Sunday, 9 a.m. 453-2660

NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. 277 Old Hollow Rd. The Rev. Kim Hornung(Continued on Page 9)

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Marcy, pastor. Sunday worship, 10 a.m., Sunday school, 10 a.m. Nursery available. Call for information on youth group and adult education. 425-2770 or www.nfumchurch.org.

Hinesburg SAINT JUDE THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 10759 Route 116. Father David G. Cray. Saturday Mass, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday Mass, 9:30 a.m. Weekday Masses Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 8 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation, Saturday, 4 p.m., and by appointment. 802-482-2290, stjude@ gmavt.net, www.stjudevt.org.

Leicester COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE. 39 Windy Knoll Lane. The Rev. Philip Smith, pastor. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday worship service, 11 a.m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Men’s Breakfast, every third Saturday, September through May.

Hoop in these times. 453-4610 or www.sunray.org.

UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN. The Rev. David Wood, pastor. Sunday worship, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school, 11:15 a.m. Sunday youth, 6:30 p.m. 453-4280, ucol@ gmavt.net, unitedchurchoflincoln.org.

Middlebury CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY. Corner of Duane Court and Charles Avenue. The Rev. Barnaby Feder, minister. Sunday service 10 a.m. Religious exploration and nursery care provided. 388-8080. www.cvuus.org.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MIDDLEBURY. Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour streets, Sunday, 10 a.m.; Sunday school 10 a.m., Wednesday (third weeks of the month only), 7:30 p.m.

ST. AGNES’ ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (A MISSION OF OLGH, BRANDON). Leicester Whiting Road. Fr. Vincent Onunkwo, Admin. Mass on Sunday, 8 a.m. (May though October). Tel: 247-6351.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UCC). 2 Main St. The Rev. Andrew Nagy-Benson, pastor.

Sunday worship and church school at 10 a.m. Nursery care provided. 388-7634.

Lincoln SUNRAY MEDITATION SOCIETY AND SUNRAY PEACE VILLAGE. 2202 Downingsville Rd. Home of the Green Mountain Ani Yunwiwa and Vajra Dakini Nunnery. Cherokee Ceremonial Cycle on new moons; Cherokee and Tibetan Buddhist teachings offered. Come join us to renew the Sacred

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. 133 Valley View Drive, Buttolph Acres. 388-3102.

Bret Weekes, Stake President, Montpelier Vermont Stake.

Sunday: Sacrament meeting 10 a.m.; Sunday school 11:15 a.m.

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THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CORNWALL At our church you will find: vital and engaging worship, spiritual nourishment, a warm welcome, intergenerational activities, generosity, a sense of community, holy hilarity and soul-filling music.

WE ARE AN OPEN AND AFFIRMING CHURCH

All our welcome to attend our Sunday morning worship services at 9:30 AM

Est. 1803 Pastor: Reverend Mary Kay Schueneman Minister of music: Charles Callahan

2598 Route 30 • Cornwall, VT • 802.462.3111 • cornwalluccvt.com

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EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP. Information on service in the Middlebury area: 453-5334.

Hebrew school from September to May. 388-8946 or www.havurahaddisoncounty.org.

ECKANKAR. Meeting once a month at Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Info: megan.elberty@gmail.com.

Check for this month’s meeting date and time online at www.eckankar-vt.org.

MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH (AMERICAN BAPTIST). South Pleasant Street. The Rev. Dr. Stephanie Allen, pastor. Sunday school for all ages (infant to adult) on Sunday, 9 a.m.; Sunday morning worship and Junior Church (worship model) with nursery, 10 a.m.; small groups, fellowship groups throughout the week. Times and dates at www.memorialbaptistvt.org or 388-7472.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH. 52 Merchants Row. Sunday morning worship, 10 a.m. Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m.

Visitors welcome. www.gracebaptistmiddlebury.com or 453-3003.

HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY. Havurah House, 56 North Pleasant St. A connection to Judaism and Jewish life.

Independent and unaffiliated. High Holy Day services are held jointly with Middlebury College Hillel. Weekly

North Chittenden MOUNTAINSIDE BIBLE CHURCH (REFORMED BAPTIST). 27 Holden Road. Sunday worship 10:30 a.m., Sunday school 9:30 a.m. nhismrcy@gmail.com, www. mountainsidebiblechurch.com or 802-483-6266.

Orwell FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. The Rev. David Anderson, pastor. Sunday worship service, 10 a.m. 9482900.

MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: QUAKERS). Havurah House, 56 North Pleasant St. (Route 7). Sunday, 10 a.m., First Day School (September through June), childcare provided.

SAINT PAUL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Fr. Anthony Pittappilly, pastor; Fr. Michael Onyekwere, parochial vicar; Fr. Deniskingsley Nwagwu, parochial vicar.

Mass Sunday, 10:30 a.m., and Tuesday, 7 p.m. 468-5706.

MIDDLEBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Corner of Route 7 and Seminary Street. Rev. Jill ColleyRobinson, Congregational Care minister and quarter-time coordinating pastor. Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors. A Reconciling Congregation. Sunday: adult study, 10 a.m.; gathering time, 10:45 a.m.; morning worship, 11 a.m.

Ripton RIPTON COMMUNITY CHURCH, UNITED METHODIST. No regular services, but the facility is available for religious and social events. 388-0338.

SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION). Father William Beaudin, pastor. Masses: Saturday, 5:15 p.m., Sunday 8, 10 a.m.

ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. On the green in Middlebury. The Rev. Dr. Susan E. McGarry, rector. Sunday morning services, June 5-Sept. 4, 9 a.m.; September to June, services at 8 and 10:30 a.m., adult education and choir at 9 a.m. (child care available), and Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.

Wednesdays: Communion in the chapel, 12:05 p.m.

Thursdays, Christian meditation, 4 p.m. 388-7200 or www.ststephensmidd.org.

ST. TIMOTHY ANGLICAN MISSION. Middlebury Community House, 6 Main St. The Rev. Alex W. Cameron. Sunday services, 4 p.m. Service consists of an informal homily followed by the celebration of the Eucharist.

THE SANGHA AT CVUUS. Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society. Sunday, 7-8:30 p.m., sitting meditation and dharma discourse. All meditation practices supported. Open to the public.

Beginners welcome. Instruction available at 6:40 p.m. rswansonvt@gmail.com.

Monkton MONKTON FRIENDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. The Rev. Bill Elwell, pastor. Sunday worship, 8:45 a.m.

453-2321 or rescueme97@yahoo.com.

New Haven ADDISON COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST. 145 Campground Road. Dale Pennock, preacher. Worship assemblies, Sunday, 9 a.m. and 11:20 a.m. Bible study classes for adults and children, Sunday, 10:30 a.m., and Tuesday, 7 p.m. Call for free Bible study course or in-home Bible study. Watch Bible Forum on MCTV-15 (Middlebury) or NEAT-19 (Bristol). 453-5704 or 545-4772.

NEW HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. The Rev. Len Rowell, pastor. Church services and Sunday school at 10 a.m. on Sunday. 388-8410.

NEW HAVEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH. 1660 Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7). Sunday services, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday school 11:30 a.m. 388-1345.

Rochester FEDERATED CHURCH OF ROCHESTER. The Rev. Gregory Homan, pastor. Sunday worship, 10 a.m. 7673012. Sunday school during the school year.

ST. ELIZABETH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Sunday, 9 a.m.

Salisbury SALISBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST). The Rev. John Grivetti, pastor.

Sunday worship service, 10 a.m., church school 10 a.m.

Shoreham ST. BERNADETTE’S / ST. GENEVIEVE’S PARISH. Part of the combined mission of St. Mary’s in Middlebury, offers Mass Saturday, 7:30 p.m., November through April only. St. Genevieve’s in Shoreham has Mass from May through October at 7:30 p.m.

SHOREHAM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHUCC. The Rev. Christina DelPiero, pastor. Intersection of Main and School streets. Sunday service, 10 a.m., with child care available. Handicap accessible. 897-2687.

Starksboro/South Starksboro EPISCOPAL GATHERING AT THE JERUSALEM SCHOOLHOUSE. Behind Jerusalem Country Store, Route 17, S. Starksboro. Vicki Backus. First and third Sunday of each month, 9:30 a.m. 453-6488.

SOUTH STARKSBORO FRIENDS MEETING (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: QUAKERS). Dan Sargent Road (call).

Sunday worship and First Day school, 9:30 a.m., preceded by singing at 9:15 a.m. 453-4927.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO. 2806 Vermont Route 116. 453-5577. Pastor Larry Detweiler, (802) 434-6715 (home), (802) 989-2679 (cell), email revdets@gmail.com. Sunday mornings: 10 a.m., Chat, Chew and Renew, adult Bible study and fellowship; 10 a.m.-noon, Sunday’s Cool youth Bible study and fellowship (grades K-7); 11 a.m., Sunday worship, with Communion monthly on the first Sunday. Starksboro Senior Meal, 11: 30 a.m., fourth Thursday, JanuaryOctober, Brenda Boutin, senior meal coordinator, 4536354, mtgazette@earthlink.net.

Vergennes/Panton ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHRISTIAN CENTER. 1759 Route 7, Vergennes. Pastor Mike Oldham, senior pastor. Sunday school (all ages), 9 a.m.; worship service and children’s church, 10 a.m.; Spanish worship service, 11 a.m.: prayer (Continued on Page 11)

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open house, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Phone, 877-3903; fax, 877-3924; e-mail, contact@agccvt.org; website, www. agccvt.org.

ST. PETER’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Rev. Yvon Royer, pastor. Masses: Saturday, 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 a.m.

Confessions: Saturday, 3:30-4:15 p.m.; Sunday, 10-10:15 a.m.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH. 73 Church St., Waltham. The Rev. Phillip Westra, pastor. Sunday worship services: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., nursery available. Sunday school for children at 11:15 a.m. Weekday groups include coffee break womens’ group, young peoples (7th-12th grade), young adult married and singles, and more. 877-2500 or www. cvcrc.net.

VERGENNES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Main Street, Vergennes, across from the Vergennes Opera House. Street parking. The Rev. Jill Colley Robinson and Rev. Mike Doran. During July, the congregation will worship at the West Addison UMC at 9 a.m. During August, Sunday worship in Vergennes is at 9 a.m., returning to 10:30 a.m. in September. (802) 8773376.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF VERGENNES (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST). Water Street. The Rev. Gary F. Lewis, pastor. Sunday, 9:30 a.m., nursery, church school ages 3-8th grade. Info: www.vergennescongregationalchurch.org, 8772435 or vucc@vergennesucc.org.

PANTON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH. 49 Adams Ferry Road, just around the corner from the Panton General Store.

Eric Carter, teaching pastor. Sunday: Sunday school and adult Bible study, 9:30 a.m.; worship service, 10:30 a.m., with nursery and junior church for ages 5 and under. Wednesday evening Bible study is held in a local home; call for details. 475-2656.

ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Corner of Main and Park streets, Vergennes. The Rev. Alan Kittelson, rector. Holy Eucharist on Sunday, 8 and 10 a.m., with child care during the 10 a.m. service. 877-3322 or www.saintpaulsvergennes.org.

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. 862 Route 7. Tim Taylor, pastor.

Sunday: Bible hour classes (for all ages), 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m. Wednesday: Adult prayer and Bible study, AWANA Clubs (for boys and girls 3 years to 6th grade), JaM Junior High Group, Youth Group (high school), 6:30 p.m. Nursery (birth to 3 years) provided for all services.

Deaf interpretation available. 877-3393.

Weybridge WEYBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. The Rev. Daniel Cooperrider, pastor. Sunday worship at 10 a.m.

Childcare provided. Visit weybridgechurch.org. 545-2579.

Whiting WHITING COMMUNITY CHURCH. Brett Cody, pastor. Sunday school for all ages, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday morning service, 10:30 a.m. 623-7171.

New HaveN UNited RefoRmed CHURCH Our Commitments and Beliefs

Church Activities

• The authority of the Bible

• Prayer Meeting Group

• The supremacy and lordship of Jesus Christ

• Men’s & Women’s Bible Study

• Textual, Bible-based preaching

• Young Adult’s Bible Study

• The teachings of the Protestant Reformation, as summarized in the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dordt

• Children’s & Adult Sunday School

• God-centered and God-honoring worship

Pastor Rev. Andrew Knott Please visit our website www.nhurc.org Contact us newhavenvturc@gmail.com

Morning Worship Service every Sunday, 10am

• Junior High Youth Group • High School Young Peoples • Church Choir Group

Children’s Sunday School every Sunday, 11:30am

Evening Worship Service every Sunday, 7pm Children’s nursery is provided for all services and building is handicapped accessible.

1660 Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7) • New Haven, VT 05472 • Phone/Fax: 802-388-1345

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Holy Week Services Brandon ST. THOMAS & GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday Service, Sunday, April 9, 10 a.m.

Easter Day service, April 16, 10 a.m.

FURNACE BROOK WESLEYAN CHURCH – FOREST DALE CAMPUS. Easter Sunrise Service, Sunday, April 16, 6:30 a.m.; Easter Service, 11 a.m.

OUR LADY OF GOOD HELP (ST. MARY’S). Holy Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Good Friday, April 14, noon, “The Walk” from the green to the church, followed by soup in the church hall (all are welcome); 7 p.m., Passion of the Lord. Holy Saturday, April 15, 8 p.m., Easter vigil. Easter Sunday, April 16, 10 a.m., The Resurrection of the Lord.

Bridport HOPE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP. Sunday, April 16, 10:30 a.m., Easter worship service, Bridport Community Hall.

Bristol BRISTOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. Sunday, April 16, 7 a.m. Easter sunrise service; 8 a.m., Easter breakfast; 9 a.m., Easter worship service.

BRISTOL FEDERATED CHURCH. Palm Sunday Worship, Sunday, April 9, 10:15 a.m. April 13, 5:30 p.m., Maundy Thursday potluck supper, please bring a dish to share; Worship 7 p.m., Bristol Baptist Church. Good Friday, April 14, noon, gathering with other churches at St. Ambrose Catholic Church for worship & lunch. Easter Sunrise Service, Sunday, April 16, 6:30 a.m., Bristol Recreation Field on Airport Dr.; Easter Worship 10:15 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRISTOL. Thursday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., Holy Thursday service with Federated Church of Bristol.

Good Friday, April 14, noon, ecumenical service at St. Ambrose Catholic Church.

Easter Sunday, April 16, 6 a.m., sunrise service on Gove

Hill in Lincoln followed by breakfast at the First Baptist Church; 10:15 a.m., Easter service.

ST. AMBROSE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Special Stations of the Cross, Tuesday, April 11, 7 p.m. Holy Thursday Service, Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. Easter Sunday Service, Sunday, April 16, 8 a.m.

Charlotte CHARLOTTE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday 10 a.m. Thursday, April 13, Footwashing service, 6:30 p.m. in Vestry; Tenebrae service, 7 p.m. in Vestry; 19-hour Holy Vigil starts at 8 p.m. Friday, April 14, 3 p.m.

Stations of the Cross. Saturday, April 15, Easter Egg Hunt 1 p.m. Sunday, April 16, 5:30 a.m., Easter sunrise service, (meet in the parking lot); 9 a.m., early Easter service (no Sunday school); 11 a.m., late Easter service.

Cornwall CORNWALL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Sunrise Service, Sunday April 16, 6 a.m., Longman Field, Middlebury College; Easter Worship, 9:30 a.m.

Ferrisburgh FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 9, 9 a.m., Palm Sunday Family Worship. Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., Maundy Thursday: Tenebrae and Communion, Vergennes United Methodist Church. Friday, April 14, 4 p.m., ecumenical Good Friday service at Vergennes Congregational Church. Friday April 14, 1 p.m. to Saturday April 15, 1 p.m., 24-hour prayer vigil, Midlebury United Methodist Church. Sunday, April 16, 9 a.m., Easter Sunday family worship.

NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 9, Easter Egg Hunt 9:30 a.m.; worship 10 a.m. Good Friday, April 14, 4 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. Easter Sunday, April 16, 6:15 a.m., sunrise service at Claflin Farm off Old Hollow Road; 10 a.m., regular service in sanctuary.

Middlebury CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 9, 10 a.m., Palm Sunday service in Sanctuary. Thursday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., simple soup and bread meal; 7:30 p.m., Maundy Thursday service in Sanctuary. Friday, April 14, noon, Good Friday service at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Easter Sunday, April 16, 6 a.m., sunrise service at Middlebury College’s Youngman Field; 10 a.m., Easter service.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 16, 11 a.m., A celebration in music by the choir, youth band, individual solos and duos.; 11-12:30, Covered dish supper. All are invited.

HAVURAH HOUSE. Saturday, April 8, 10 a.m., Saturday morning service. Tuesday, April 11, 5:30 p.m., second night communal Seder.

MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Monday-Friday, April 10-16, 7-7:30 a.m., Morning Devotional.

Maundy Thursday & Communion, Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 16, 6 a.m. Sunrise Service, Grice Farm, 1126 Halpin Rd followed by breakfast at Fellowship Hall; 10 a.m., Easter Celebration worship.

MIDDLEBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 9, 10:45 a.m., Palm Sunday worship.

Thursday, April 13, 6:30/7:30 p.m., Soup & sandwich supper followed by Maundy Thursday service at the Congregational Church of Middlebury. Friday, April 14, noon, ecumenical Good Friday service, St. Stephen’s Epsicopal Church. Friday April 14, 1 p.m. to Saturday April 15, 1 p.m., 24-hour prayer vigil.

Easter Sunday, April 16, 6 a.m., ecumenical sunrise service at Middlebury College’s Youngman Field; 10:45 a.m., Easter service.

Lincoln UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN. Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday community Easter egg hunt, 1 p.m.

Maundy Thursday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., soup and bread meal downstairs. Easter Sunday, April 16, 6 a.m., sunrise service on the top of Gove Hill, followed by free breakfast at Burnham Hall; 9:45 a.m., Easter worship service.

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Holy Week Services SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION). Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Friday, April 14, 3 p.m., Good Friday Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, and 7 p.m., Stations of the Cross. Saturday, April 15, 7 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass. Sunday, April 16, 8 and 9:30 a.m., Easter Masses.

ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sunday, April 9, 8 a.m., Palm/Passion Sunday Service; 9 a.m. Adult Ed: Praying with the Psalms; 10:30 a.m., Service and “Godly Play” Sunday School.

Wednesday, April 12, 7 p.m., Stations of the Cross.

Thursday, April 13, 12:15 p.m., Noonday Concert: George Matthew Jr, organ; 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday service with foot washing. Friday, April 14, noon, ecumenical Good Friday service; 1 p.m. church open for prayer; 7 p.m. Good Friday public concert; 7:50 p.m., Good Friday Liturgy. Saturday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Easter vigil with Holy Communion (with incense). Sunday, April 16, 8 a.m., Easter Sunday Holy Communion; 10:30 a.m., Easter Sunday Festival Holy Communion & Easter crafts for children.

Monkton MONKTON FRIENDS METHODIST CHURCH. Palm Sunday, Easter Story re-enactment, Sunday, April 9, 8:45 a.m. Easter Service, Sunday, April 16, 8:45 a.m.

Salisbury SALISBURY UCC CHURCH. Sunday, April 16, 10 a.m., Easter Service with the Flowering of the Cross.

Shoreham

SHOREHAM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 9, 10 a.m. Easter Sunday, April 16, 6:45 a.m., sunrise service at the home of Mavis Munger, 2602 Route 74 East, Shoreham, followed by potluck breakfast; 10 a.m., service at the church with special music.

ST. GENEVIEVE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. Sunday, April 16, 11 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass.

Vergennes ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 9, 8 a.m. blessing of palms and eucharist; 10 a.m. blessing of palms, procession and eucharist.

Maundy Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., Foot-washing, Holy Eucharist and Stripping of Altar. Good Friday, April 14, 7 p.m., Proper Liturgy of Good Friday.

Saturday, April 15, 8 p.m., Great Vigil of Easter.

Easter Sunday, April 16, 8 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite I; 10 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite II. ST. PETER’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Saturday, April 8, 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 9, 10:30 a.m. Palm Sunday Mass. Special Stations of the Cross, Monday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. Good Friday Services, Stations of the Cross, Friday, April 14, 3 p.m. Easter Vigil mass, Saturday, April 15, p.m.; Sunday, April 16, 8 a.m.; Easter Service, 10:30 a.m.

VERGENNES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 9, 9:30 a.m. Maundy Thursday Tenebrae service, April 13, 7 p.m. Watch Night Vigil, Thursday April 13, 8 p.m. Ecumenical Good Friday Service, April 14, 4 p.m. Children’s Easter Party, (spring nature crafts, face painting, egg hunt & more) Saturday, April 15, 9:30-11 a.m. Sunday, April 16, Easter Sunrise Service, 6:30 a.m., Comfort Hill farm; Pancake breakfast, Fellowship Hall, 6:45 a.m.; Easter celebration and worship 9:30 a.m.; Easter Nap, afternoon.

West Addison WEST ADDISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 9, 9 a.m., Palm Sunday Family Worship. Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., Maundy Thursday: Tenebrae and Communion, Vergennes United Methodist Church. Friday, April 14, 4 p.m., ecumenical Good Friday service at Vergennes Congregational Church. Friday April 14, 1 p.m. to Saturday April 15, 1 p.m., 24-hour prayer vigil, Midlebury United Methodist Church. Sunday, April 16, 9 a.m., Easter Sunday family worship.

Weybridge WEYBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Maundy Thursday, April 13, 6 p.m., Tenebrae service with a light supper (with Cornwall Church in Cornwall). Easter Sunday, April 16, 7-8:30 a.m., pancake breakfast followed by Easter worship at 9 a.m. All are welcome. Childcare available. Info: weybridgechurch.org.

Whiting WHITING COMMUNITY CHURCH. Easter Sunday, April 16, 8:30-9:45 a.m., Easter breakfast; 10 a.m., Easter service.

If you don’t see your organization’s Easter Week services listed, send them to us at calendar@addisonindependent.com.

We plan to publish an updated list before Easter.

VERGENNES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Friday, Sunday, April 9, 10:30 a.m., Palm Sunday Family Worship. Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., Maundy Thursday,: Tenebrae and Communion. Friday, April 14, 4 p.m., Ecumenical Good Friday, Vergennes Congregational Church. Friday, April 14, 1 p.m. to Saturday, April 15, 1 p.m., 24-hour prayer vigil, Middlbeury United Methodist Church. Sunday, April 16, 10:30 a.m., Easter Sunday Family Worship.

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday, 11 a.m. Saturday, April 15, 10-11:30 a.m., free Easter egg hunt for all, plus games and snacks. Easter Sunday, April 16, 7:30 a.m., early service; 9:45 a.m. Bible hour; 11 a.m. morning worship.

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Brandon Congregational Church – United Church of Christ Sunday Worship at 10 a.m. year round • The Reverend William L. Bartholomew, Interim Pastor Our congregation is an inclusive, diverse, Christ-centered community of faith, open and affirming of all God’s children.

We are called to walk humbly with God in fairness, kindness, love, peace and joy. We seek to follow Jesus in worship and music, outreach, in-reach and fellowship. We welcome all who seek a spiritual home where love prevails.

Missions: We host the Brandon Foodshelf and support other local mission projects that provide services and assistance to people of all ages. Our Pastor has a discretionary fund that may be utilized to help individuals with transportation, short term housing and other needs.

We have meals for the general public where free will offerings are taken rather than charging an admission fee. Brandon Cares was begun by this congregation and has grown into a community wide project. Our buildings are used by Scouts and other community groups.

Music Our adult choir provides music during Sunday Services from September through June. The Brandon Festival Singers has performed a special holiday concert the second Sunday in December for the past 35 years.

Youth Education & Programs: Sunday School Program & Child Care are available from September through June.

Adult Education Adult classes & discussions are offered.

Hospitality Coffee and other beverages and light snacks are offered after the service in Fellowship Hall.

The Brandon Congregational Church was established in 1785. The present building was erected in 1832 and the adjacent Fellowship Hall was built in the second half of the nineteenth century. It contains the Town Clock and has a Tracker Pipe Organ and a Carillon.

It is handicapped accessible and has hearing assistance devices available.

1 Carver Street, P.O. Box 97, Brandon VT brandoncongregationalchurch@gmail.com Church & Office Phone: 802-247-6121 Pastor’s Cell Phone: 802-745-7515

The Vergennes Congregational Church UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST We are an Open and Affirming, vibrant Christian community – full of life, music and laughter. We gather to worship and to explore and grow in our faith. We embrace everyone, striving to love and serve with compassion and grace – as Jesus did – to make a difference in our community and beyond.

Youth Opportunities & Confirmation

Worship

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here!

Led by Rev. Gary Lewis • Sunday Morning at 9:30 and Special Services throughout the year.

Mission Trips

Children’s Message, Sunday School, Christmas Pageant

Local Mission Outreach Contact us to find out more!

30 South Water St., Vergennes, VT • 877-2435

vucc@vergennesucc.org

www.vergennescongregationalchurch.org

Crop Walk!

Sunday Service 9:30

Community Food Shelf

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St. Peter’s Catholic Church Pastor: Yvon J. Royer

Worship Services

Celebration of the Lord’s Day Masses are held on Saturdays at 4:30pm and Sundays at 10:30am Palm Sunday Mass: Saturday, April 8th at 4:30 pm • Sunday, April 9th at 10:30 am Holy Thurday Mass: April 13th at 7 pm at St. Ambrose in Bristol Good Friday: April 14th • Stations of the Cross at 3:00 pm Easter Vigil: April 15th at 8 pm Easter Sunday Mass: April 16th at 10:30 am

All are welcomed to join us as we journey with Jesus!

85 South Maple Street (PO Box 324) Vergennes, VT 05491 (802) 877-2367 st.peter.vt@comcast.net st.petervt.com

We know that in serving our neighbor we are serving God!

In this “Year of Creation” St. Peter’s Parish Community is focused on making Jesus’ Mission our Mission!

This Mission involves two things, sharing the Good News of God’s love and by reaching out to those in need.

One of the ways that we are sharing this Good News is via our Addison County Youth Ministry program which helps our youth to discover God’s love for them and to share that love by serving others. We also have ongoing Adult Education, and a Bible Study group. Learning about God’s love and sharing that love is what we are all called to do.

Our Parish is also very pleased to serve the needs of our brothers and sisters in the Vergennes area in many different ways though our Social Action committee. I would like to list just a few in case you would like to be part of or in need of these important services.

1) Free Monthly Community Meals; 2) Thrift shop; 3) Graham Shelter elves; 4) Food Shelf supporters; 5) Meals for those in need; 6) Youth Ministry shut-in meals; 7) Funeral reception meals; and 8) Our Parish Hall is available for many community functions

Saint Ambrose Catholic Community FOR THE GLORY OF GOD Bristol • Lincoln • Monkton New Haven • Starksboro

West Street, Bristol, Vermont

Fr. Yvon J. Royer 802-453-2488 email: stambros@comcast.net Website: saintambrosevt.org Rectory Address: 11 School Street, Bristol, VT 05443 Holy Week Schedule: Palm Sunday: Saturday, April 8th • 6:30pm Sunday, April 9th • 8:00am Holy Thursday Mass: April 13th • 7:00pm

Regular Mass Schedule: Saturday, 6:30pm

Sunday, 8:00am

Good Friday Service: April 14th • 7:00pm

Easter Vigil: April 15th • 8:00pm @ St. Peter’s in Vergennes Easter Sunday Mass: April 16th • 8:00am Monday & Wednesday, 8:30am

Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30pm

All our welcome to join our celebrations • St. Ambrose & Hall are now fully handicap accessible

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